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This beautifully written book gripped my attention and, with its short chapters, lured me into multiple late-night reading sessions; completing the last page left me with a sense of loss.
The novel follows the winding and difficult paths of the two principal characters, the blind French girl Marie-Laure and the orphaned German boy Werner, to their intersection in St. Malo, France, days before the onset of an American bombardment of the town. Doerr gradually introduces a large number of vividly-dr ...more
The novel follows the winding and difficult paths of the two principal characters, the blind French girl Marie-Laure and the orphaned German boy Werner, to their intersection in St. Malo, France, days before the onset of an American bombardment of the town. Doerr gradually introduces a large number of vividly-dr ...more
Beautiful writing, wonderful characters. Might seem too slow to some.
Beautiful, and though fiction, is now very real.
A must-read. Or better still, must-listen.
Nov 12, 2015
Kathryn Parmeter
marked it as to-read
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