All the Light We Cannot See : A Novel (Paperback)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist . the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book 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.

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.

Doerr's stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner . he illuminates the ways . against all odds . people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing . All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent . deeply moving novel from a writer whose sentences never fail to thrill (Los Angeles Times).