![]() ![]() 'Far more than a conventional war story, It's a tightly focused epic … Doerr paints with a rich palette, using prose that resonates deeply and conveys the ephemera of daily existence along with high drama, sadness and hope … A bittersweet and moving novel that lingers in the mind' Daily Mail. Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth. ![]() The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. ![]() The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. ‘Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.’įor Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. COMING SOON TO NETFLIX WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONĪ beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about 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 ![]()
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