Author: Anthony Doerr
Published: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 531
Rating: 5/5
"Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. 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. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge."
I loved this book. All The Light We Cannot See really intrigued me from the moment I had heard of it. I was really curious to read from the perspective of a girl who is blind. Besides that, the fact that the other main character, views the war from a totally different point also got me very interested.
This book was so well written. I love short chapters, which this book definitely had (most chapters were 3 to 5 pages). I loved the characters, not only Marie-Laure and Werner but also the side characters like Jutte and Etienne.
I would definitely recommend this book to everyone. It's touching, devastating and wonderful.
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