Published4th Estate, August 2015 |
ISBN9780007548699 |
FormatSoftcover, 544 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 3.4cm |
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION
A 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
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.'
For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. 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.
In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of
Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
Eva is a newer Boffin who is currently studying Psychology. She reads whatever catches her eye, but is particularly partial to YA and fantasy.
A beautiful and immersive novel about two children caught on opposite sides of WWII. This book contains some of the richest sensory descriptions I've ever read. Thoroughly enjoyed and will be a constant recommendation of mine.
