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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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I also loved this book. And I loved that the audio began & ended with the strains of Clair de Lune
Great review for a truly beautiful book. So glad you loved it.
I loved it too. It was in my top ten the year I read it.
Also a favorite. It was a little slow for me in the beginning and I wasn't sure I'd be able to connect to a blind storyteller. Super wrong about that!
Yes! This not only got 5 stars with me last year it got a few hearts. I listened to the audiobook which was exquisitely read.
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious 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.
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 am seeing a trend this year. This is the 4th book that I have read that has taken place during a time of war. Wow!!! I loved this book and cannot believe I waited so long to read (listen) to it. I so loved how the author tied the story of Werner and Marie-Laure together. How they were connected by a story.
Maire-Laure brought back so many memories of my grandmother. My grandmother became blind at a very young age after she got Polio. But she did not let that stop her. She lived an amazing life and could do so many things. As a child, I was fascinated by the things she could do. It was like she could see but couldn't.