The winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize is Anthony Dorr with a wonderful, astonishingly ambitious book, All the Light We Cannot See, published by Nova Knjiga.
The book tells the story of a blind Frenchwoman, Marie Laure, and a German, Vermeer, whose paths cross in occupied France as they both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Marie Lor lives with her father in Paris, near the Natural History Museum, the magical place where her father works. When Marie Laure became blind at the age of six, her father built for her a model of the neighborhood in which they lived in Paris, so that she would remember the layout of the streets in the neighborhood by touch.
Carefree years pass and, when the German army occupies Paris, Marie Laure and her father flee the city, taking with them perhaps the museum's most valuable treasure. At the same time, in a different world, in Germany, the orphan Werner is growing up.
One day he finds an old radio that will completely enchant him. He soon becomes a skilled radio repairman and that talent earns him a place in the brutal academy for Hitler's youth. More and more aware of the price of his intelligence on a human level, Werner arrives at the center of the war and finally, in San Malo, where he meets Marie Lor.
Anthony Dor is the winner of several prestigious awards. His award-winning novel "All the Light We Cannot See" was an incredible success immediately after its publication. Forty-Nine Weeks was on the New York Times bestseller list and sold more than 1,6 million copies. A few months ago, he was shortlisted for the prestigious American National Book Award.
Doro's imaginative and complex work that explores human nature and the contradictory power of technology, inspired by the horrors of World War II according to the Pulitzer Prize jury, can be found in all City bookstores, in the New Book edition.
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