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{"id":2124653068377,"title":"All the Light We Cannot See — Doerr '95","handle":"all-the-light-we-cannot-see","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Anthony Doerr, Class of 1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoerr’s \"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) are dazzling. 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When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. 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{"id":6842245546073,"title":"Cloud Cuckoo Land — Doerr '95","handle":"cloud-cuckoo-land-doerr-95","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Anthony Doerr, Class of 1995\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/i\u003e, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes the highly anticipated \u003ci\u003eCloud Cuckoo Land. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope—and a book. 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His path and Anna’s will cross.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFive hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLike Marie-Laure and Werner in \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/i\u003e, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravest danger. Their lives are gloriously intertwined. 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His path and Anna’s will cross.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFive hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLike Marie-Laure and Werner in \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/i\u003e, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravest danger. Their lives are gloriously intertwined. 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