There’s an awful lot that separates the pair of parallel protagonists in Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize winning 2014 novel “All the Light We Cannot See”. Marie-Laure is a blind French girl taking refuge in Saint-Malo after Paris fell to Nazi Germany, she loves braille books and natural history and navigates the world by memory of scale models built by her father. Werner Pfennig is a German orphan with a precocious affinity for radio technology, a skill that inevitably ushers him into the military. But what the pair ultimately share is what might be called the light we cannot see. As the novel’s plot turns toward the Battle of Saint-Malo in August 1944, bombs of war buffet the background and the two characters are drawn into a vortex with a Nazi gemmologist and, crystallised at the centre of everything, a diamond known as the Sea of Flames.
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