Werner, the child soldier, who, having been a bystander, has to decide whether to reach out to save a life Madame Manec, wants to be alive before she dies by risking her life to aid the resistance and make a difference and Marie-Laure, who astutely observes, "what are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die," and who, as a child, grasps the inevitability of the world to keep spinning and "not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun," as lives come and go and atrocities are inflicted upon innocent citizens. The characters quickly drew me in, fully realized in pithy, image-full chapters. For groups, the novel offers a palette of images that spur discussion on what feeling alive means to each of us and where we find our place of respite. The 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction and a 2014 National Book Award Finalist, All the Light We Cannot See, offers the solitary reader an immersion in the tale of two children whose paths collide during WW II.
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