![]() Can you talk about how/why you structured the book this way?Ī: I’ve been building up to this structure for a while, trying it out in various shorter forms. It’s quite different from anything you’ve written before, and the structure is really captivating. Q: One of the things I noticed right away about the book is its distinctive style. ![]() Ultimately, the title is intended as a suggestion that we spend too much time focused on only a small slice of the spectrum of possibility. It’s also a metaphorical suggestion that there are countless invisible stories still buried within the Second World War - that stories of ordinary children, for example, are a kind of light we do not typically see. Q: What’s All the Light We Cannot See about?Ī: The power of radio technology in the first half of the 20th century and its use as both an instrument of disinformation and liberation a cursed diamond children in Nazi Germany puzzles snails the Natural History Museum in Paris courage fear bombs keys and locks the magical seaside town of Saint-Malo in France and the ways in which people, against all odds, try to be kind to one another.Ī: It’s a reference first and foremost to all the light we literally cannot see: that is, the wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum that are beyond the ability of human eyes to detect (radio waves, of course, being the most relevant). ![]()
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