Last year, it was Dona Tartt The Goldfinch. This April 20, is any light that we can see, Anthony Doerr award winning. A novel that comes out these days by Editions Albin Michel (€ 23.50) and the overseas critics often called "masterpiece".

Albin Michel can rejoice in the allocation of Pulitzer Prize, which reward the best journalistic articles from the past year, but also a work of fiction in the United States. Novelists Philip Roth, Toni Morrison and William Faulkner were already recipients. 

Who is the author?He says admirer of Cormac McCarthy, Virginia Woolf and Anne Carson, but also have a vivid memory of the Chronicles of Narnia that his mother read to him as a child. Anthony Doerr was born in 1973 in Cleveland, Ohio, and now lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and twin son. He is the author of two collections of short stories (The names of Shells, The Memory Wall) and now two novels (one and About Grace) that have propelled some of the most promising figures of American literature.

What's it about?No less than ten years. This is the time it took to complete to Anthony Doerr All the light we can not see. The idea for the novel came to him when he saw a man mistreating his failing mobile phone. "We forgot what miracle can now converse with someone as well," he says. The writer, himself, prefers to show the magic and the role of radio in the early twentieth century. It will situate this reflection the heart of a novel set during World War II, following the destinies of two young heroes, blind French Marie-Laure and German orphan Werner drafted into the Wehrmacht.

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