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Simon & SchuSter S eGalley DiSclaimer Do not quote for publication until verifed with the fnished book. This advance, uncorrected reader’s proof is the property of Simon & Schuster. It is being made available for promotional purposes and review by the recipient and may not be used for any other purpose or transferred to any third party. Simon & Schuster reserves the right to terminate availability of the proof at any time. Any duplication, sale or distribution to the public is a violation of the law. This fle will no longer be accessible upon publication of this book. For more information on Simon & Schuster’s eGalley program, please visit www.galleygrab.com. EGalley Disclaimer REV 1P.indd 1 10/16/09 3:27 PM ANTHONY DOERR ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE A Novel. arie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of M locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Doerr’s gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work. · Advance reader’s edition· National print and radio publicity campaign· 5-city author tour: Boston, Boise (ID), New York, San Francisco, and Seattle · National print advertising in The New Yorker · Cross promotion with author’s website (AnthonyDoerr.com) · Promotion through Simon & Schuster social media · Online reading group guide · Book club outreach · Backlist eBook promotion ANTHONY DOERR is the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won numerous prizes both in the US and overseas, including four O. Henry Prizes, three Pushcart Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. All the Light We Cannot See March 2014 For Publicity Scribner Hardcover Fiction Information and 6 x 9, 448 pages Review Copies: $27.00 ISBN: 978-1-4767-4658-6 NONMERCH 9781476761572 Kate Lloyd 212-632-4951 [phone] 212-632-4957 [fax] Doerr_AlltheLight_2P_jdh-es.indd 1 12/13/13 10:50 AM A L S O BY A NTHO NY DOER R Memory Wall Four Seasons in Rome About Grace The Shell Collector Doerr_AlltheLight_2P_jdh-es.indd 2 12/13/13 10:50 AM All the Light We Cannot See • A Novel Anthony Doerr SCRI B N E R New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi Doerr_AlltheLight_2P_jdh-es.indd 3 12/13/13 10:50 AM • Scribner A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 T is book is a work of fi ction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fi ctitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2014 by Anthony Doerr All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Scribner Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. First Scribner hardcover edition May 2014 SCRIBNER and design are registered trademarks of T e Gale Group, Inc., used under license by Simon & Schuster, Inc., the publisher of this work. For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or For Wendy Weil 1940–2012 Doerr_AlltheLight_2P_jdh-es.indd 5 12/13/13 10:50 AM Doerr_AlltheLight_2P_jdh-es.indd 6 12/13/13 10:50 AM In August 1944 the historic walled city of Saint-Malo, the brightest jewel of the Emerald Coast of Britany, France, was almost totally destroyed by fre. . . . Of the 865 buildings within the walls, only 182 remained standing and all were damaged to some degree. —Philip Beck It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio. —Joseph Goebbels Doerr_AlltheLight_2P_jdh-es.indd 7 12/13/13 10:50 AM Doerr_AlltheLight_2P_jdh-es.indd 8 12/13/13 10:50 AM
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