There are three primary time streams here, 1944 as the Allies are assaulting the German-held town, 1940-44, as we follow the progress of Werner and Marie Laure to their intersection, and the 1930s. His assignment brings him to Saint Malo, where his path and Marie Laure’s intersect.
He develops technology for locating radio sources, and is rushed into the Wehrmacht to apply his skill in the war. Werner has a gift for electronics, and is sent to a special school where, despite the many horrors of the experience, his talent is nurtured. Werner and Jutta Pfennig are raised in a German orphanage after their father is killed in the local mine. Daniel had made a scale model of their neighborhood in Paris to help young Marie Laure learn her away around, and repeats the project in Saint Malo, which is eventually occupied by the German army. They bring with them a large and infamous diamond, to save it from the Nazis. His PTSD from WW I had kept him indoors for two decades.
She and her father, Daniel, fled Paris ahead of the German invasion, arriving in the ancient walled port city of Saint Malo in northwest France to stay with M-L’s great uncle, Etienne. So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?Marie Laure LeBlanc is a teen who had gone blind at age 6. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.įrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful 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.Īn alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereĤ/20/15 - PULITZER WINNER for 2014 The brain is locked in total darkness of course, children, says the voice. 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. 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. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works.
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