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Short Review:
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning
Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious 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.
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.
About The Author:
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
Anthony Doerr (born 1973) is an American author of
novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel
All the Light We Cannot See, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr attended the nearby
University School, where he graduated in 1991. He then majored in history at Bowdoin
College in Brunswick, Maine, where he graduated in 1995, and earned an MFA from
Bowling Green State University.
Bibliography
* Novels
About Grace (2004), All the Light We Cannot See (2014)
* Short story
collections
The Shell
Collector (2002), Memory Wall (2010)
* Memoirs
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia
and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World (2007)
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