A novel about how war brings out the best and worst of people.
All the Light We Cannot See is about a blind girl named Marie-Laure, who lives in Paris, France, in the 1930s. When the Nazis invade in 1940, she and her father are forced to leave the city. They escape to a countryside town to hide with Marie- Laure’s great uncle, Etienne. After several months, Marie-Laure’s father gets arrested. She continues to live with Etienne, and they start passing on secret signals to aid the French Resistance movement.
Werner Pfennig is a German orphan. His favorite hobby is listening to science and music programs on an old radio. He develops a talent for fixing radios. He is later hired by the Nazis to help them track enemy radio signals during the war. One day, he picks up a signal that is coming from Etienne’s home in France. Werner doesn’t report his findings, though, after he realizes it’s the same location that broadcast the programs he loved as a boy.
