All the Light We Cannot See is structured nonlinearly; sections taking place during the Battle of Saint-Malo in … 展开

Anthony Doerr is an author from Boise, Idaho. He previously wrote the short story collection The Shell Collector (2002) and the novel About Grace (2004). The memoir Four Seasons in Rome (2007) and the short story collec… 展开

Critics consider the writing style of All the Light We Cannot See to be lyrical. The novel is told in the present tense, with short chapters and sentences. According to The Guardian's Michelle Dean, this "gives the impression of si… 展开

All the Light We Cannot See was published on May 6, 2014, by Scribner, with a print run of 60,000 copies to commercial success. By December 2014, the book had been reprinted 25 times, with 920,000 copies produce… 展开

All the Light We Cannot See has received critical acclaim. According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on fifteen critic reviews with eight being "rave" and four being "positive" and two being "mixed" an… 展开