The book was out of stock at Amazon in the run-up to Christmas, and some independent booksellers also ran out in at the height of the holiday rush. “An awful lot of titles drop off the best-seller list after four months, and it’s a miracle if it lasts more than four months.” “It not only kept going, but the longer it went, the bigger it got, and that’s very unusual,” said Carolyn Reidy, chief executive of Simon & Schuster, Scribner’s parent company. Scribner, which printed 60,000 copies when the book was published in May, has reprinted it 25 times and now has 920,000 copies in print. The story, about a blind French girl who joins the resistance to the German occupation and a sharp young German soldier with a savant-like talent for tracking radio signals, has struck a chord with readers, catching everyone in the book industry, including Mr. Doerr’s book has emerged as the unexpected breakout fiction best seller of 2014. In a year jammed with juicy novels from literary heavyweights like David Mitchell and Marilynne Robinson, Mr. “I think it’s dangerous to keep asking myself why.” “It never crossed my mind that this was a more commercial book,” Mr. It has dense passages about radio technology and carbon bonds.īut he’s stumped when asked to explain how the book became a smash hit. The prose often feels knotty and baroque. It’s set in Europe during World War II and features a sympathetic young Nazi. The All the Light We Cannot See cast also includes Lars Eidinger and Marion Bailey.Anthony Doerr can come up with plenty of reasons his novel “All the Light We Cannot See” might have failed to reach a broad audience. The actor appeared in the movies such as Holmes & Watson, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Sense and Sensibility, and Spice World. He has also appeared in the TV shows The Night Manager, Veep, Catch-22, Blackadder, and Spooks. He won an Emmy in 2020 for his role in I Know This Much Is True, and has also worked on the TV shows The Beat, What If.?, and She-Hulk. He has also appeared in movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 13 Going on 30, Zodiac, Shutter Island, and The Adam Project. Ruffalo is best known for portraying one of the strongest Marvel heroes, Bruce Banner, a.k.a. He's eccentric and suffering PTSD from World War I. Hugh Laurie plays Etienne LeBlanc, who's part of Marie-Laure and Daniel’s family.
Ruffalo plays Daniel LeBlanc, Marie-Laure's father who's a locksmith at the Museum of Natural History in Paris.
Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo also star in the limited series. Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo in All the Light We Cannot See
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