In its onscreen dénouement, Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer-winning novel undergoes significant changes.
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Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See is full of gorgeously rich, heartbreaking prose that tells the story of a young blind girl trying to survive Nazi-occupied France, an 18-year-old German soldier with an affinity for science and a pesky moral compass, a cursed jewel called the Sea of Flames, and how they all intersect one night in 1944. It’s also over 500 pages, ping-pongs through time, and features several characters trapped in various locations with nothing much to do except think. Adapting it for the screen, as Steven Knight and director Shawn…
