Written by multiple award-winning author Anthony Doerr, this beautiful New York Times bestseller is about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths cross in occupied France as both try to survive* the destruction of World War II.

    Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is 6, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature* of their neighborhood so she can memorize* it by touch and find her way home. When she is 12, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee* to the walled citadel* of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

    In a mining town in Germany, orphan* Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted* by a radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special task to track* the resistance*. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s meet.

    Doerr’s sense of physical detail and metaphors* are impressive. Cleverly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he shows the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.(SD-Agencies)