Story added by paulellmaker on February 13, 2020
Marie-Laure Leblanc lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as a locksmith. When she is 12, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable & dangerous jewel: The Sea of Flames. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, 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 & fixing these crucial new radios & is enlisted to use his talent to track down the French resistance. Marie-Laurie & Werner, from warring countries, both having lost many of the people they loved, come together in Saint-Malo, as Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
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