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"All the Light We Cannot See" is a novel written by Anthony Doerr that was first published in 2014. The novel tells the story of two main characters: Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner, a German boy, during the Second World War.

Marie-Laure is the daughter of a locksmith in Paris. She goes blind at a young age and her father builds her miniature models of the neighborhood so that she can learn to navigate her surroundings. When the Nazis occupy Paris, Marie-Laure and her father flee to Saint-Malo, a coastal town in Brittany, where they take refuge with Marie-Laure's great-uncle, Etienne.

Werner, on the other hand, grows up in an orphanage in Germany and is a brilliant student of science and engineering. He is recruited by the Nazis to work on a secret project, but as the war drags on, Werner begins to question the morality of the regime and his role in it.

The novel follows the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner as their paths intersect during the war, and how the choices they make shape their destinies. The novel is widely praised for its evocative and descriptive writing, as well as its emotional depth. Doerr's writing captures the beauty of the natural world, the wonder of science and the tragedy of war with exceptional way.

It also won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and is a New York Times Bestseller, widely recommended by many readers and critics.

It's a historical fiction novel that offer a unique perspective of WWII through the eyes of a Blind French girl and a German orphan boy.