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A slow beginning, followed by several twisting threads of story, and finished with a delicate and beautiful knot of an ending. Marie-Laure and Werner's stories are both heartbreaking and hopeful. As children when war begins, they are both sympathetic characters caught up in circumstances.
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Imagine being an adolescent when a world war breaks out. Where do you go? What do you do? How do you know who to trust and how long to plan rations for? Marie-Laure is a blind girl in Paris when the war breaks out. Her father (locksmith of the Paris Museum of Natural History) is charged with taking a precious artifact and hiding until the war is over to keep it out of Hitler’s hands. Marie-Laure and her father escape on foot to the small coastal town of Saint Malo in Brittany, France, where they ...more
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