![]() ![]() Malo after Paris is invaded by the Nazis, her father goes missing, and she’s a teenager by the time the Americans arrive on D-Day.ĭoerr writes in third-person, and his chapters are very short - they swing back and forth between the changes young Marie-Laure is enduring in France and those that Werner Pfennig, an orphaned teenager in Germany, faces when placed in an elite Nazi training school there during WWII. ![]() The two of them evacuate to a village in Brittany called St. She grew up in Paris, her father is raising her on his own. One of the main characters in Doerr’s current best-selling novel All the Light We Cannot See is blind, but there’s much more to Marie-Laure LeBlanc than that. Too many fiction writers portray blind characters one-dimensionally - we’re either heroic or tragic, bumbling or, particularly lately, blessed with super-powers.īut Anthony Doerr isn’t like other authors. I usually avoid reading novels and short stories with characters who are blind. ![]() They’re reading a book that has a blind character in it, and I’ve been asked to give my viewpoint. ![]() I’m in Michigan this week - one day I’m giving a presentation at an elementary school in Caledonia, and the next day I’ve been invited to a book club sponsored by St. Book review: Anthony Doerr’s “All the Light We Cannot See” ![]()
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