All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Beautiful book about a blind girl, an engineering prodigy, and an agoraphobic veteran. They are from different backgrounds, and even different sides of the war, but their lives intersect so that they all become saviors of each other, each gives hope to the other in impossible situations. It’s a WWII novel, so you can’t entirely escape the tropes that accompany such stories...needless killing and brutality, hardships and secret spy circles. But under Doerr’s artful pen, these incidents seems less cliche than they otherwise might have been and move the story forward. Overall, one of the best books I’ve read recently.

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