Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them the news and stories from places the have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new intruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Marie-Laure and Werner, from warring countries, both having lost many of the people they loved, come together in Saint-Malo, as Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

Auteur

Anthony Doerr

Éditeur

Scribner

ISBN

9781501104565

Année de publication

2014

Catégorie

Littérature canadienne et internationale, Livre anglais

Nombre de pages

531

Condition

Très bon état