All the Light We Cannot See

Summary

The novel intercuts the lives of Marie-Laure, a blind French girl fleeing Paris with her father, and Werner, a gifted German orphan whom the Reich's radio corps conscripts, as their paths converge in occupied Saint-Malo. Doerr writes in very short, image driven chapters and braids the science of radio with a fairy tale sensibility. The result is a tender, formally precise meditation on courage and connection in wartime.