“Gripping… As the strands of the plot converge, the book becomes a meditation on fate, free will, and the way that, in wartime, small choices can have vast consequences.”
Nothing short of brilliant, ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ gives off the kind of mesmerizing and legend-making light as that of the mysterious diamond that sits in the center of the story.” “The written equivalent of a Botticelli painting or a Michelangelo sculpture.
Deftly interweaving the lives of multiple characters, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure’s.ĭoerr’s gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. In another world in Germany, an orphan named Werner grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. When the Germans occupy Paris in June of 1940, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood-every house, every sewer drain-so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks.
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