Recommendation: This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel takes readers on a gripping journey through the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, two individuals caught in the turmoil of World War II. The unique perspective of Marie-Laure, who is blind, and the mesmerizing storytelling make this book a must-read for those seeking a deeply emotional and beautifully written exploration of humanity's capacity for both kindness and cruelty.

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• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2015)
• Audie Award for Fiction (2015)
• ALA Alex Award (2015)
• Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2015)
• Ohioana Book Award for Fiction (2015)
• Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for International Book (2015)
• Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction (2015)
• Idaho Book of the Year Award (2014)
• 本屋大賞 Nominee for Translated Fiction (2017)
• National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2014)
• Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction (2014) and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018)
• Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2016)

Librarian note: Older covers for this edition can be found here: Dec-2015; 15-Jan-2015.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-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 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-Laure’s converge.

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