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All the light we cannot see : a novel

Doerr, Anthony, 1973-

Overview

\"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 within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, 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. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. 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. 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.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Scribner
• Subject: Blind Fiction. / World War, 1939-1945 Youth France Fiction. / World War, 1939-1945 Youth Germany Fiction. / FICTION / General. / FICTION / Literary. / FICTION / Historical. / France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction. / Saint-Malo (France) Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781476746586, 1476746583

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3604.O34 A77 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE