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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
4.0

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is a poignant novel that takes place during World War II. The book jumps back and forth between 1934 and 1944 and follows 6-year-old Marie-Laure LeBlanc and 8-year-old Werner Pfennig. Marie-Laure is blind by the age of 6 and lives with her father who is a locksmith. He works for a museum that is rumored to have a precious diamond called Sea of Flames. It is believed that the person who holds this stone will be alive forever but their family and loved ones will be afflicted with some disaster or accident. Werner Pfennig is an orphan who is fascinated with radios and proves to be quite talented with them. He is brought to a Nazi training school that is brutal and horrific. As both children grow during World War II and struggle to survive, unknown to them, their paths will soon cross.

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