English Translations of Scandinavian/Nordic Mysteries & Thrillers discussion

Edelweiss+ has Anthony Doerr's book All the Light We Cannot See publishede on the 18th of June 2014. This book is one of my favorites, not because of what happens but it was one of my father-in-laws true stories from when he was in WWII. He was responsible for aiming his gun (it was an 8 inch gun around 30 feet long) at the Germans and made them surrender and move out. He said that there was nothing left in the city. My wife took him back to France when he was 99 years old. He died at 104 years old. We met a woman who was living in France at the time of WWII, as a little girl, and we had a wonderful meal with her in Chicago. But the book is interesting and worth reading, for free if you are a reader for Edelweiss+.

*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* A National Book Award finalist *

From Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).