The Audio Book Club Squints at All the Light We Cannot See
Slate critics debate Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II novel.
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This month Slate critics Emily Bazelon, Hanna Rosin, and Katy Waldman discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. Is Anthony Doerr’s story of two children caught up in World War II a sweeping and complicated achievement, or overly neat and sentimental? Where are all the Jews? And why did Doerr conclude his epic in such a disjunctive and unexpected way?
Next month the Audio Book Club will dig into Emily St. John Mandel’s dystopian best-seller Station Eleven. Read the book and stay tuned for our discussion in July!
Visit our Audio Book Club archive page for a complete list of the more than 75 books we’ve discussed over the years. Or you can listen to any of our previous club meetings through our iTunes feed.
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