![]() In time Marie-Laure is able to navigate the streets with confidence, using the system her father has lovingly and painstakingly constructed for her.Īs the German army marches into Paris, Marie-Laure and her father escape into the countryside. One such method is his design of a miniature street maze of their local Parisian neighbourhood. He trains her mind to ‘see’ by using ingenuous methods. ![]() Without fail, her father constantly challenges her with puzzles and tricks. A slight inclination of each day toward success or failure. There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. Marie-Laure is too young and her father is too patient. For many that would lead them down a very dark path but not for Marie-Laure. At the tender age of six, Marie-Laure loses her sight due to congenital cataracts. He is a gifted locksmith working in the Natural History Museum. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris. It is here in Saint-Malo that Anthony Doerr bases both the beginning and the end of his epic book, All the Light We Cannot See.Ī story of hope in a time of despair, we step into the lives of sixteen-year old Marie-Laure LeBlanc and eighteen-year old Werner Pfennig. Saint-Malo, a walled port city in Brittany on the North West coast of France, was almost completely demolished by US bombers in 1944. The ant-air guns let fly their final shells.’ ![]() The roar becomes loud enough to separate membranes in the middle ear. In another quarter second, the sirens are inaudible. ![]()
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