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. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. 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. 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.
) are dazzling.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. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.ĭoerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” ( Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. 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. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. , the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instantīestseller 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.
Top Ten Book* A National Book Award finalist *įrom Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of
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