Doerr, Anthony 1973- creator author. text Historical fiction. nyu New York Scribner 2014 2014 First Scribner hardcover edition. monographic eng

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531 pages ; 24 cm. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History. When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Anthony Doerr. Blind Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Youth France Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Youth Germany Fiction France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction Saint-Malo (France) Fiction PS3604.O34 A77 2014 813/.6 9781476746586 2013034107 DLC 090306 20190501164150.0 852226410 eng