Werner secures a place at the military school because of his skill at repairing radios and Marie-Lurie struggles through her handicap to lead a normal life. The story follows the lives of Werner, an orphan boy who fights his destiny to be sent to the mines and Marie-Laure, the blind daughter of a locksmith, who is forced to find refuge at Saint Malo during the war. This Pulitzer winning novel is a true delight to the senses tracing the times before and after the German occupation of France. Like spun gold”, peaches described as “wedges of wet sunlight” and destruction as “At the lowest tides, the barnacled ribs of a thousand shipwrecks stick out above the sea”? Savour the book is what anyone would do and that is just what I did. What do you do when you pick up a book about war and stumble onto sentences like, “The eggs taste like clouds. The book won the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 2015. The stunning imagery interspersed with breathless moments make this one a true winner. All the Light we Cannot Seen ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy who cross paths in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
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