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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 Marie-Laure 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.
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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.
"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever."A novel a decade in the making, All the Light We Cannot See is simply one of the most finely tuned pieces of art I've had the pleasure of experiencing in quite some time. And I don't say "experiencing" lightly: I found it impossible to just simply "read" this book. In fact, it almost manages to give a bad connotation to each and every time I say, "Yeah, I read that book."In a day and age of textspeak, beautiful language appears to be more and more impossible to discover. Enter All the Light, and the dancing and interweaving metaphors, similes, and the impeccable prose of Anthony Doerr. Whether it be about mollusks, radios, love, or warfare, Doerr describes each and every detail of the haunting world he has written about.While this novel juggles various themes and characters, the heart of Doerr's masterpiece belongs to the lives of Werner and Marie-Laure. Their interweaving tales pose questions of both life and death: Are you truly living if you follow the orders of others, while ignoring your own hopes and beliefs? Can we ever completely move on from a past that haunts us? Should we want to? How can life continue on, so still and unwavering, when so many people have left our lives and this world, as quickly as they've entered it?During their brief chapters together, Werner and Marie-Laure form a bond as strong as one that would ordinarily take hundreds of pages to build. Their connection is originated not from sudden lust or years of friendship, but instead, by each making it through hell and happening to find each other on the other side. Like mostly everything in All the Light, their time together doesn't last long, but for me, it left a lasting impression, not unlike the one I had "experiencing" this wonderful book.