![]() ![]() And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.įrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.Īn alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereĤ/20/15 - PULITZER WINNER for 2014 The brain is locked in total darkness of course, children, says the voice. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. ![]() In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. ![]() When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. ![]()
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