A lovely story about a blind girl navigating WW2 — really enjoyed it.

Set across occupied France and Germany, the novel follows two parallel lives: Marie-Laure, a blind French girl who flees Paris with her father carrying a legendary diamond, and Werner, a German orphan whose extraordinary gift for radio propels him into the brutal heart of the Nazi war machine. Their paths slowly and inevitably converge in the walled city of Saint-Malo.

Anthony Doerr writes with extraordinary care and precision — each chapter is short, luminous, and quietly devastating. The novel is really a meditation on fate, light, and what it means to be good in a world that is falling apart. It took him ten years to write and you can feel every one of them.

Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Now a Netflix series — adapted in 2023 with Aria Mia Loberti as Marie-Laure and Louis Hofmann as Werner. Worth watching after the book.