#BookReview: All The Light We Cannot See
The two children's lives become linked, revealing the depths of our human capacity to triumph over evil.
There are a few rare books that stand hallowed on the shelves of booklovers everywhere.
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is one of these. You will want to read it again and again, savouring every word.
The 2014 novel follow the lives of two children during World War 2. Marie-Laure is the blind daughter of the lock-maker at the Museum of Natural History, Paris.
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 with his housekeeper.
Unbeknown to her, her father carries with him the museum’s most valuable jewel.
In another world in a poor mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, grows up with his younger sister in an orphanage.
Exceptionally gifted he teaches himself how to build a radio that brings them stories from across the world. He is later enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance.
The two children’s lives become linked in an unsual way, revealing the depths our human capacity to triumph over evil.
Netflix is set on making a four-part adaptation of the aclaimed novel, but are yet to breath a word on the release date.
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