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Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall.
In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.
Doerr’s gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr 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 his most ambitious and dazzling work.
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A magnificent, deeply moving novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France.
This quickly became one of my favourite books right from the beginning. I have never really been into history books, and know the basics but the ironic timing of just finishing The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank - and a couple days later jumping into this book - shed some more light of the time back then during the 1940s during the Nazi Regime. The story line of not only being introduced to this new way of life with very little adjustment period, but also navigating the world as a blind girl - was absolutely mesmerizing. Anthony Doerr put so much detail into life as a blind person, right down to envisioning what colours Marie-Laure sees in her mind as she pictures her own world. Her father dedicated so much time and energy into making her world as accessible for Marie-Laure which absolutely touched my heart. The build up of her uncle who became frozen due to his own past trauma and the way his world slowly opened up because of Marie-Laure was breathtaking.Werner was such a strong character who had such growth through the whole story that I enjoyed the journey of seeing how he and Marie-Laure would eventually cross paths.So many characters played such vital roles in this novel that it had me in the "just one more chapter....." Mindset through almost all of it. Absolutely recommended.
I am angry and sad and ready to scream. This boy holy shit. Like I need to touch some grass because the emotions he pulled out of me? Brooooooo. I have many thoughts about Werner Pfennig. Babe hold my hand cause I am not alright.