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The light which we cannot see5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of 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. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth. Here is the book synopsis for All the Light We Cannot See as seen on Amazon: Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. ![]() The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. ![]() ![]() 'Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.'įor Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. International Holocaust Remembrance Day: All the Light We Cannot See Parts ZeroTwo rampart incendiary diaphanous citadel Parts ThreeFour smolder. WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONĪ beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel 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 ![]()
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