Doerr's writing and imagery are stunning. 'This jewel of a story is put together like a vintage timepiece. Enthrallingly told, beautifully written and so emotionally plangent that some passages bring tears' - The Washington Post 'I'm not sure I will read a better novel this year. 'Boy meets girl in Anthony Doerr's hauntingly beautiful new book, but the circumstances are as elegantly circuitous as they can be' - The New York Times the novel takes hold and will not easily let go' - The Times 'Doerr can bring a scene to life in a single paragraph.
It is such a page-turner, entirely absorbing. 'This novel will be a piece of luck for anyone with a long plane journey or beach holiday ahead. 'An epic and a masterpiece' - Justin Cartwright, The Observer 'An epic work about bravery and the power of attachment' - Rose Tremain, The Observer A bittersweet and moving novel that lingers in the mind' - The Daily Mail Doerr paints with a rich palette, using prose that resonates deeply and conveys the ephemera of daily existence along with high drama, sadness and hope. 'Far more than a conventional war story, It's a tightly focused epic. Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780008138301 Number of pages: 544 Weight: 370 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 34 mm MEDIA REVIEWS In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.įor Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2015Ī beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel 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
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