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Summary:

"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. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another"-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Doerr, Anthony, 1973- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

All the light we cannot see: a novel [by Doerr, A.]

Subjects:

Blind — Fiction

Orphans — Fiction

World War, 1939-1945 — Youth — France — Fiction

World War, 1939-1945 — Youth — Germany — Fiction

France — History — German occupation, 1940-1945 — Fiction

Saint-Malo (France) — Fiction

Genres:

Historical fiction

Novels

General Notes:

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2015
Includes an excerpt from the author's Cloud cuckoo land.

Creator Demographics:

Americans; Ohioans; Idahoans; Men
Clevelanders; Boiseans

Physical Description:

531 pages ; 21 cm

Call Numbers:

PS3604.O34 A77 2017

ISBNs:

9781501173219 (trade paperback)
1501173219 (trade paperback)

OCLC Numbers:

969877862