All The Light We Cannot See

Description

A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this lyrical and sweeping novel is set against the backdrop of occupied France during World War II. It tells the parallel stories of Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl who flees Paris for the walled citadel of Saint-Malo with her father, and Werner Pfennig, an orphan German boy whose genius for radio technology earns him a place in a brutal Hitler Youth academy.

Their lives are connected by a mythical, potentially cursed diamond called the Sea of Flames and a series of radio broadcasts that Marie-Laure’s great-uncle sends into the night. As the war draws them toward an inevitable collision in 1944, the novel explores the invisible light of human goodness and the ways people try to be kind to one another despite the surrounding darkness.