Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever’
The book is a page turner and is beautifully penned down. The protagonist here is a sixteen year old girl, blind since a young age. Everyone considers Marie to be brave from when she lost her eyesight to when her father left her. She’s self reliant and strong owing to the miniature of Paris model her father had made for her. She would feel the smooth and rough surfaces and find her way through the city. Marie Laurie le Blanc and her father take refuge against the Nazis in Paris. Her father Daniel le Blanc works at a national museum safeguarding invaluable small stones. She is destined to encounter Werner Pfennig a German orphan who becomes a soldier after fixing a radio. Anthony Doerr through his own way of touching several hearts and engaging them at the same time in ‘All the Light we cannot see’.
Would definitely recommend this bittersweet moving novel.
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