All the Light We Cannot See in Bangalore Open Library

Sep 14, 2021 Bosons rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2021

What worked for me - The book is set during the Second World War. There are two parallel stories through the book. Marie-Laure, and Werner. Both the characters are well etched and their individual story lines are engaging. You can feel for them. The whole atmosphere of WW2 is captured really well. The book is extremely readable with short chapters. It also moves across timelines without it being jarring.

What did not work for me - the way the two story lines get tied up was not at all satisfying ...more

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Aug 10, 2017 Alfa Hisham rated it really liked it

It is a bitter, emotional, haunting tale set in Germany/France during the Nazi rule. After you turn the last page Marie, Werner, Fredrick, Etienne, Jutta, nearly all the characters of the book float before your eyes just like Werner's eerie hallucinations. Horrors of war leave wounds open in the readers' mind. The only balm to soothe those wounds are the occasional happy memories of Werner and Marie. Simple, honest, truthful memories.

I love beautiful prose and probably why it never felt like a ...more

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Aug 02, 2019 Swathi rated it it was amazing

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Jan 23, 2018 Amulya Arasinamakki rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: not-my-type-of-book, pulitzer, 2018-reads

2.5 Stars

Individual moments do not make novels. Stand-alone brilliant chapters too don’t make novels. This 500+ page work of fiction set in Nazi Germany(France) drags in the beginning, and doesn’t recover completely until last 100 pages or so. Neither the language nor the historical allusions are believable for a novel that has been hailed for its “research”. Pakistan in 1941? Come on now!

The characterisation of two protagonists is the only saving grace.

Good read? Yeah, meh. But is the Pulitzer ...more

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