All The Light We Cannot See

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2015, finalist for the National Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller, this beautifully written and impressively ambitious novel tells the story of a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as they both try to survive the devastation of World War II, by the highly acclaimed, award-winning Anthony Doerr.

Marie-Laure has been blind since she was six years old. Her father builds a perfect miniature model of their Paris neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and find her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan destined to work in the same mine that claimed his father's life until he discovers a talent for engineering. His talent earns him a place at a brutal military academy, but his path out of anonymity is marked by suffering.

At the same time, an old man in a walled city by the sea discovers new worlds without ever leaving his home. Yet the looming danger draws ever closer around him. Doerr's combination of soaring imagination and meticulous observation is electrifying. As Europe sinks into war and lives unpredictably intersect, "All the Light We Cannot See" is a gripping and devastating elegy for innocence.