All The Light We Cannot See

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller list. A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works as the master of the locks. When she is twelve, the German Nazis occupy Paris and she and her father flee to Saint-Malo. In Germany, Werner Pfennig grows up enchanting with a crude radio they find that brings stories from distant places. Werner becomes an expert at fixing radios and is recruited into a military academy, where he becomes a tracker of the Resistance. His path converges with Marie-Laure's in Saint-Malo. The story depicts the efforts of people to be good under extraordinary circumstances.