All the Light We Cannot See | A Novel

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Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist, New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 The book is about a blind French girl and a boy The Germans’ paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Marie-Laure lived with her father in Paris near the Natural History Museum, where he worked as the keeper of its thousands of locks. When she was six, Marie-Laure became blind and her father built a perfect miniature model of their neighborhood so she could remember it by touch and return home. When she was twelve years old, the Nazis occupied Paris, and father and daughter fled to the fortified fortress of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s lonely uncle lived in a high house by the sea. The precious and dangerous jewel in the museum. In a mining town in Germany, orphan Werner grows up with his sister, fascinated by the crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at making and repairing these vital new gadgets, a talent that earns him a place at the brutal Hitler Youth academy and later a special assignment to track down the Resistance. Increasingly aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels to the heart of the war and eventually to Saint-Malo, where his story and that of Marie- Laure.
Doerr’s “wonderful sense of physical detail and wonderful metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) is astonishing. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, it sheds light on how people try to be kind to each other, despite all the difficulties. Ten years in the making, All the Light We Can See is a beautiful and deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail” (Los Angeles Times