All the Light We Cannot See - AHHS SUMMER READING

1 CopyrightFourth EstateAn imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers1 London Bridge StreetLondon SE1 eBook first published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2014 Copyright Anthony Doerr 2014 Extract from About Grace Anthony Doerr 2005 Cover design by Tal Goretsky and Lynn BuckleyCover photographs: Manuel Clauzier (San Malo); George Eastman House/Getty images (sky)The right of Anthony Doerr to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him inaccordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act catalogue record for this book is available from the British book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people or real places areused fictitiously.

2 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 rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of therequired fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read thetext of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded,decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrievalsystem, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafterinvented, without the express written permission of ISBN: 9780008138301 Ebook Edition April 2015 ISBN: 9780007548682 Version: 2017-03-14 DedicationFor Wendy Weil1940 2012 EpigraphSaint-Malo, the brightest jewel of the Emerald Coast.

3 The city looked picturesque and solid from the sea but as we got nearthe landing place we realized that the houses visible above the walls were just burnt-out shells .. Of the 865 buildings within thewalls, only 182 remained standing and all were damaged to some degree. Philip BeckIt would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio. Joseph GoebbelsContentsCoverTitle PageCopyrightDedicationEpigraphPart Zero: 7 August 1944 LeafletsBombersThe GirlThe BoySaint-MaloNumber 4 rue VauborelCellarBombs AwayPart One: 1934 Mus um National d Histoire NaturelleZollvereinKey PoundRadioTake Us HomeSomething RisingLightOur Flag Flutters Before UsAround the World in Eighty DaysThe ProfessorSea of FlamesOpen Your EyesFadeThe Principles of MechanicsRumorsBigger Faster BrighterMark of the BeastGood Evening.

4 Or Heil Hitler if You , Blind GirlMaking SocksFlightHerr SiedlerExodusPart Two: 8 August 1944 Saint-MaloNumber 4 rue VauborelHotel of BeesDown Six FlightsTrappedPart Three: June 1940Ch teauEntrance ExamBrittanyMadame ManecYou Have Been CalledOccuperDon t Tell LiesEtienneJungm nnerViennaThe BochesHauptmannFlying CouchThe Sum of AnglesThe ProfessorPerfumerTime of the OstrichesWeakestMandatory SurrenderMuseumThe WardrobeBlackbirdsBathWeakest (#2)The Arrest of the LocksmithPart Four: 8 August 1944 The Fort of La Cit Atelier de R parationTwo CansNumber 4 rue VauborelWhat They HaveTrip WirePart Five: January 1941 January RecessHe Is Not Coming BackPrisonerPlage du M leLapidaryEntropyThe RoundsNadel im HeuhaufenProposalYou Have Other FriendsOld Ladies Resistance ClubDiagnosisWeakest (#3)GrottoIntoxicatedThe Blade and the WhelkAlive Before You DieNo OutThe Disappearance of Hubert BazinEverything PoisonedVisitorsThe Frog CooksOrdersPneumoniaTreatmentsHeavenFred erickRelapsePart Six: 8 August 1944 Someone in the HouseThe Death of Walter BerndSixth-floor BedroomMaking the RadioIn the AtticPart Seven.

5 August 1942 PrisonersThe WardrobeEastOne Ordinary LoafVolkheimerFallSunflowersStonesGrotto HuntingThe MessagesLoudenvielleGrayFeverThe Third StoneThe BridgeRue des PatriarchesWhite CityTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaTelegramPart Eight: 9 August 1944 Fort NationalIn the AtticThe HeadsDeliriumWaterThe BeamsThe TransmitterVoicePart Nine: May 1944 Edge of the WorldNumbersMayHunting (Again) Clair de Lune AntennaBig ClaudeBoulangerieGrottoAgoraphobiaNothin gForty MinutesThe GirlLittle HouseNumbersSea of FlamesThe Arrest of Etienne LeBlanc7 August 1944 LeafletsPart Ten: 12 August 1944 EntombedFort NationalCaptain Nemo s Last WordsVisitorFinal SentenceMusic #1 Music #2 Music #3 OutWardrobeComradesThe Simultaneity of InstantsAre You There?

6 Second CanBirds of AmericaCease-fireChocolateLightPart Eleven: 1945 BerlinParisPart Twelve: 1974 VolkheimerJuttaDuffelSaint-MaloLaborator yVisitorPaper AirplaneThe KeySea of FlamesFrederickPart Thirteen: 2014 AcknowledgmentsAbout GraceAlso by Anthony DoerrAbout the AuthorAbout the PublisherZero7 August 1944 LeafletsAt dusk they pour from the sky. They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutterinto the ravines between houses. Entire streets swirl with them, flashing white against the message to the inhabitants of this town, they say. Depart immediately to open tide climbs. The moon hangs small and yellow and gibbous.

7 On the rooftops of beachfronthotels to the east, and in the gardens behind them, a half-dozen American artillery units dropincendiary rounds into the mouths of cross the Channel at midnight. There are twelve and they are named for songs: Stardust andStormy Weather and In the Mood and Pistol-Packin Mama. The sea glides along far below,spattered with the countless chevrons of whitecaps. Soon enough, the navigators can discern the lowmoonlit lumps of islands ranged along the crackle. Deliberately, almost lazily, the bombers shed altitude. Threads of red lightascend from anti-air emplacements up and down the coast.

8 Dark, ruined ships appear, scuttled ordestroyed, one with its bow shorn away, a second flickering as it burns. On an outermost island,panicked sheep run zigzagging between each airplane, a bombardier peers through an aiming window and counts to twenty. Fourfive six seven. To the bombardiers, the walled city on its granite headland, drawing ever closer, lookslike an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, a final abscess to be lanced GirlIn a corner of the city, inside a tall, narrow house at Number 4 rue Vauborel, on the sixth and highestfloor, a sightless sixteen-year-old named Marie-Laure LeBlanc kneels over a low table coveredentirely with a model.

9 The model is a miniature of the city she kneels within, and contains scalereplicas of the hundreds of houses and shops and hotels within its walls. There s the cathedral withits perforated spire, and the bulky old Ch teau de Saint-Malo, and row after row of seaside mansionsstudded with chimneys. A slender wooden jetty arcs out from a beach called the Plage du M le; adelicate, reticulated atrium vaults over the seafood market; minute benches, the smallest no largerthan apple seeds, dot the tiny public runs her fingertips along the centimeter-wide parapet crowning the ramparts, drawingan uneven star shape around the entire model.

10 She finds the opening atop the walls where fourceremonial cannons point to sea. Bastion de la Hollande, she whispers, and her fingers walk downa little staircase. Rue des Cordiers. Rue Jacques Cartier. In a corner of the room stand two galvanized buckets filled to the rim with water. Fill them up, hergreat-uncle has taught her, whenever you can. The bathtub on the third floor too. Who knows when thewater will go out fingers travel back to the cathedral spire. South to the Gate of Dinan. All evening she has beenmarching her fingers around the model, waiting for her great-uncle Etienne, who owns this house,who went out the previous night while she slept, and who has not returned.