'Far more than a conventional war story, It's a tightly focused epic revolving around two unusual main characters … Doerr paints with a rich palette, using prose that resonates deeply and conveys the ephemera of daily existence along with high drama, sadness and hope … A bittersweet and moving novel that lingers in the mind' Clifford Beal, Daily Mail

‘“All the Light We Cannot See” is a dazzling, epic work of fiction. Anthony Doerr writes beautifully about the mythic and the intimate, about snails on beaches and armies on the move, about fate and love and history and those breathless, unbearable moments when they all come crashing together.’ Jess Walter, author of ‘Beautiful Ruins’

Anthony Doerr is the author of four books, the Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome and Memory Wall. Doerr's short fiction has won three O' Henry Prizes and has been anthologized in the Best American Short Stories, the Anchor Book of New American Short Stories and the Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. He has won the Rome Prize and shared the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award with Jonathan Safran Foer.