Author: Anthony Doerr
Genre: Fiction, History
Format: Hardcover

Description:
From the highly acclaimed multiple award winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller 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.
Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six Marie Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint Malo where Marie Laures reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museums most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth then a special assignment to track the resistance More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence Werner travels through the heart of the war and finally into Saint Malo where his story and Marie Laures converge.