Ambitious Bestseller by Anthony Doerr

Ambitious Bestseller by Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr

It shows that terror can be just a background for a whole other story written in short chapters and depicts human nature and energy to see light in places where it seems to disappear.

The story takes place a few years before and during the Second World War in two places occupied France and Hitler Germany. There is an orphan child in Germany and a blind girl living in the heart of Paris. Marie-Laure LeBlanc is the only precious daughter of her father - a master locksmith who works at the museum. She lost sight at the age of six, however, her widowed father never suggests that her status as a default. By creating wooden models of her street, taking her to work, going with her to different places and following to develop the sense of touch, teaches you how to pass through a whole new world without images. Man goes much further: to buy expensive books in Braille to improve Marie's perception of a fantastic world explored by Jules Verne. And throughout history, we never noticed a touch of complaints from girls. Things and objects, people and nature that she can not see for obvious reasons, Mary imagines and sounds and smells known.

At the same time, the neighboring country is preparing for war. Werner Pfennig, eight years old, lives in the children's house Zollverein with his sister and other children without parents or bright future. Unlike other people, he and his sister Jutta do not care about Nazism. In fact, they listen to the radio and learn incredible things broadcast by a French foreigner with low, soft voice programs.

Their life changed when the Nazis came to France in 1940. Marie and her father left their house and a comfortable apartment to reach the country of Uncle Stephen de Marie, who after a time became the girl's best friend When she disappears father. There is something in one of the Marie models. There is something precious that has possessed all the time, and this Nazi gemmologist von Rumpel come.

A talented German boy joins with other extraordinary young white-haired and blue eyes in a school nightmare for the country's military. It seems that if you got what I wanted: talent is noticed and although no money is accepted, trained and respected. But he does not Jutta ... seems to have more light and yours is bright enough to see how fast his beloved brother became one of those who made his father and thousands of other relatives of orphans Are working for coal mining.

Over the years, Marie-Laure lives her own life with her extraordinary uncle, discovers her hidden secret in the attic and joins the group of French partisans who work for the benefit of France. While the child is still growing inside having light, Werner loses more than his day after day. Basically, there is the voice that tells you that things are not what they should be: Prisoners should not be humiliated and left in the cold to die, classmates should not be chased and beaten at Dead, killing others are not what your country must do to demonstrate its superiority. But the voice remains weak for years. Werner is sent to war and does his job not only repairing the radios around the occupied lands. See how others die and do nothing to save them. Within it, it is always light that you can not see. And every reader knows that one day Werner will become clearer.

While the guerrilla search, he is the same voice he heard Home Zollverein children. Werner goes against his comrades and never reveals the secret until he hears the voice of a girl calling for help ...

Although one can find dozens of books on World War II written by modern authors, there is hardly a novel like this. There are several scenarios and in an extraordinary way to write chapters are short and the action takes place both past and present. A player begins with the final scenes, then returns to the beginning to find out how it happened and what events led to that result. Anthony Doerr uses magnificent metaphors and has a great sense of physical details that help you show passionate readers from around the world that even in terrible scenes and moments, there are still people who keep the interior light bright and Try to be good to each other, even if they are in different camps.