'It's the only book I've read in my adult years that I keep thinking about every so often, even long after finishing it.'
by Anthony Doerr. It parallels the lives of a blind French girl and orphaned German boy during WWII. It is the standard by which I now judge all other books. So much more than a war story. It's the kind of book you're sad to finish because the journey and magic have come to an end.""Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works.
With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance.
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