And There Was Light

Critically acclaimed and the winner of numerous awards — including USA Today’s 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century — And There Was Light is a vivid, inspiring account of an extraordinary man’s life without sight. Blinded at the age of eight by a freak accident, Jacques Lusseyran becomes a youth leader in the French Resistance during World War II. While still in his teens, he is arrested and sent to Buchenwald, where he serves his fellow prisoners as translator and disseminator of information, never giving in to despair. His refusal to let blindness cripple him shines through his writing as he describes the inner light that guides him. Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Martin Scorsese, And There Was Light appears here in a compelling audio version. Andre Gregory's thoughtful, unsentimental reading movingly conveys the author's indomitable strength in the face of impossible conditions.