The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the bestseller "All the Light We Cannot See" returns with a new historical novel that spans more than 700 years.
Anthony Doerr fans can appreciate a substantial plot. His most recent novel, 2014 s
All the Light We Cannot See, explored the destruction and trauma wreaked on Europe by World War II and German occupation through two competing story lines: one about a blind girl forced to flee with her family from Paris to the Brittany coast, the other about an orphaned boy who enters a military academy and becomes a tracker for the Resistance. The effort won him legions of new fans and the Pulitzer Prize, and now the author returns six years later with another Herculean effort.
EW is exclusively announcing that Doerr s next novel