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Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. 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, 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. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. From 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. An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here
Publication Year: 2014
The novel tells the story of two main characters, Marie-Laure and Werner, during World War II. Marie-Laure is a blind French girl who lives in Paris and later escapes to Saint-Malo, while Werner is a German boy who grows up in a mining town and is eventually recruited into the German army. The two characters have different backgrounds and experiences, but both are connected through themes of hope, resilience, and human strength in the face of adversity.
Unfortunately, I'm slightly bored with this one. I'm listening to it, so I wonder if it had been better as a physical read. I also watched the mini series.
I have had this book sitting on my bookshelf since 2021 and I finally decided to start reading it. Especially since I watched the limited series last year on Netflix. It is interesting so far.