By Anthony Doerr
This story offers an unusual perspective on World War II, how it affects the lives of children, specifically a blind French girl and an orphaned German boy. Marie-Laure lost her vision at age six, but she is a bright, eager learner who knows her neighborhood thanks to a tactile scale model created by her father. Werner is a tech-savvy boy living in the coal district of Germany. Eventually he is tapped by the Hitler youth movement to help create and operate surveillance on the French resistance. After the German army occupies Paris, Marie-Laure's father disappears and she is taken in by a great uncle who lives in a seaside home in Ste-Malo. The worlds of the two children converge through radio near the war's end when they are teenagers. War is tragic - and the story of these two children and their families is no exception.
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