All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel (54 page)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2013034107

ISBN 978-1-4767-4658-6

ISBN 978-1-4767-4660-9 (ebook)

Contents

Epigraph

Part Zero: 7 August 1944

Chapter 1: Leaflets

Chapter 2: Bombers

Chapter 3: The Girl

Chapter 4: The Boy

Chapter 5: Saint-Malo

Chapter 6: Number 4 rue Vauborel

Chapter 7: Cellar

Chapter 8: Bombs Away

Part One: 1934

Chapter 9: Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle

Chapter 10: Zollverein

Chapter 11: Key Pound

Chapter 12: Radio

Chapter 13: Take Us Home

Chapter 14: Something Rising

Chapter 15: Light

Chapter 16: Our Flag Flutters Before Us

Chapter 17: Around the World in Eighty Days

Chapter 18: The Professor

Chapter 19: Sea of Flames

Chapter 20: Open Your Eyes

Chapter 21: Fade

Chapter 22: The Principles of Mechanics

Chapter 23: Rumors

Chapter 24: Bigger Faster Brighter

Chapter 25: Mark of the Beast

Chapter 26: Good Evening. Or Heil Hitler if  You Prefer.

Chapter 27: Bye-bye, Blind Girl

Chapter 28: Making Socks

Chapter 29: Flight

Chapter 30: Herr Siedler

Chapter 31: Exodus

Part Two: 8 August 1944

Chapter 32: Saint-Malo

Chapter 33: Number 4 rue Vauborel

Chapter 34: Hotel of  Bees

Chapter 35: Down Six Flights

Chapter 36: Trapped

Part Three: June 1940

Chapter 37: Château

Chapter 38: Entrance Exam

Chapter 39: Brittany

Chapter 40: Madame Manec

Chapter 41: You Have Been Called

Chapter 42: Occuper

Chapter 43: Don’t Tell Lies

Chapter 44: Etienne

Chapter 45: Jungmänner

Chapter 46: Vienna

Chapter 47: The Boches

Chapter 48: Hauptmann

Chapter 49: Flying Couch

Chapter 50: The Sum of Angles

Chapter 51: The Professor

Chapter 52: Perfumer

Chapter 53: Time of the Ostriches

Chapter 54: Weakest

Chapter 55: Mandatory Surrender

Chapter 56: Museum

Chapter 57: The Wardrobe

Chapter 58: Blackbirds

Chapter 59: Bath

Chapter 60: Weakest (#2)

Chapter 61: The Arrest of the Locksmith

Part Four: 8 August 1944

Chapter 62: The Fort of  La Cité

Chapter 63: Atelier de Réparation

Chapter 64: Two Cans

Chapter 65: Number 4 rue Vauborel

Chapter 66: What They Have

Chapter 67: Trip Wire

Part Five: January 1941

Chapter 68: January Recess

Chapter 69: He Is Not Coming Back

Chapter 70: Prisoner

Chapter 71: Plage du Môle

Chapter 72: Lapidary

Chapter 73: Entropy

Chapter 74: The Rounds

Chapter 75: Nadel im Heuhaufen

Chapter 76: Proposal

Chapter 77: You Have Other Friends

Chapter 78: Old Ladies’ Resistance Club

Chapter 79: Diagnosis

Chapter 80: Weakest (#3)

Chapter 81: Grotto

Chapter 82: Intoxicated

Chapter 83: The Blade and the Whelk

Chapter 84: Alive Before You Die

Chapter 85: No Out

Chapter 86: The Disappearance of  Harold Bazin

Chapter 87: Everything Poisoned

Chapter 88: Visitors

Chapter 89: The Frog Cooks

Chapter 90: Orders

Chapter 91: Pneumonia

Chapter 92: Treatments

Chapter 93: Heaven

Chapter 94: Frederick

Chapter 95: Relapse

Part Six: 8 August 1944

Chapter 96: Someone in the House

Chapter 97: The Death of  Walter Bernd

Chapter 98: Sixth-floor Bedroom

Chapter 99: Making the Radio

Chapter 100: In the Attic

Part Seven: August 1942

Chapter 101: Prisoners

Chapter 102: The Wardrobe

Chapter 103: East

Chapter 104: One Ordinary Loaf

Chapter 105: Volkheimer

Chapter 106: Fall

Chapter 107: Sunflowers

Chapter 108: Stones

Chapter 109: Grotto

Chapter 110: Hunting

Chapter 111: The Messages

Chapter 112: Loudenvielle

Chapter 113: Gray

Chapter 114: Fever

Chapter 115: The Third Stone

Chapter 116: The Bridge

Chapter 117: Rue des Patriarches

Chapter 118: White City

Chapter 119: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Chapter 120: Telegram

Part Eight: 9 August 1944

Chapter 121: Fort National

Chapter 122: In the Attic

Chapter 123: The Heads

Chapter 124: Delirium

Chapter 125: Water

Chapter 126: The Beams

Chapter 127: The Transmitter

Chapter 128: Voice

Part Nine: May 1944

Chapter 129: Edge of the World

Chapter 130: Numbers

Chapter 131: May

Chapter 132: Hunting (Again)

Chapter 133: “Clair de Lune”

Chapter 134: Antenna

Chapter 135: Big Claude

Chapter 136: Boulangerie

Chapter 137: Grotto

Chapter 138: Agoraphobia

Chapter 139: Nothing

Chapter 140: Forty Minutes

Chapter 141: The Girl

Chapter 142: Little House

Chapter 143: Numbers

Chapter 144: Sea of  Flames

Chapter 145: The Arrest of  Etienne LeBlanc

Chapter 146: 7 August 1944

Chapter 147: Leaflets

Part Ten: 12 August 1944

Chapter 148: Entombed

Chapter 149: Fort National

Chapter 150: Captain Nemo’s Last Words

Chapter 151: Visitor

Chapter 152: Final Sentence

Chapter 153: Music #1

Chapter 154: Music #2

Chapter 155: Music #3

Chapter 156: Out

Chapter 157: Wardrobe

Chapter 158: Comrades

Chapter 159: The Simultaneity of  Instants

Chapter 160: Are You There?

Chapter 161: Second Can

Chapter 162: Birds of America

Chapter 163: Cease-fire

Chapter 164: Chocolate

Chapter 165: Light

Part Eleven: 1945

Chapter 166: Berlin

Chapter 167: Paris

Part Twelve: 1974

Chapter 168: Volkheimer

Chapter 169: Jutta

Chapter 170: Duffel

Chapter 171: Saint-Malo

Chapter 172: Laboratory

Chapter 173: Visitor

Chapter 174: Paper Airplane

Chapter 175: The Key

Chapter 176: Sea of  Flames

Chapter 177: Frederick

Part Thirteen: 2014

Chapter 178

Acknowledgments

About Anthony Doerr

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