All the Light We Cannot See

Set during the Second World War, the novel follows two young people. Marie-Laure LeBlanc is a blind French girl who takes refuge in her great-uncle’s house in Saint-Malo after the Germans occupy Paris. Werner Pfennig is a bright German boy whose skill with radios wins him a place at a military school. Chapters alternate between them, and the story is told out of sequence: sections set during the battle for Saint-Malo in August 1944 are interleaved with earlier ones that begin in 1934.