*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES-from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring
Mark Ruffalo Hugh Laurie and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and
National Book Award finalist the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times
Book Review Top 10 Book 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. 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 six Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect
miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When
she is twelve the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of
Saint-Malo where Marie-Laure's reclusive 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 the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister enchanted by a crude radio they
find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments a talent
that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth then a special assignment 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
converge. Doerr's stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors (San Francisco
Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner he
illuminates the ways against all odds people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the
writing All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent deeply moving novel from a writer whose
sentences never fail to thrill (Los Angeles Times).
