A blind French girl and a German boy cross paths in occupied France as both struggle to escape the ravages of World War II in this cherished, "incandescent...luminous" (Oprah Daily) immediate New York Times bestseller.

Marie-father Laure's works as the master of the Museum of Natural History's numerous locks, and they both reside in Paris close to the museum. Marie-Laure loses her sight when she is six, so her father creates an exact scale model of their neighborhood so she can learn it by touch and find her way home. When Marie-Laure is twelve years old, the Nazis have taken over Paris, and her father and daughter leave to Saint-Malo, a walled city where Marie-great Laure's uncle lives alone in a tall home by the sea. They may be transporting the most priceless and hazardous treasure in the museum.

The orphan Werner grows up in a mining village in Germany with his younger sister, fascinated by a rudimentary radio they discover. Werner develops into a specialist at creating and maintaining these vital new tools, a skill that earns him admission to a harsh Hitler Youth academy and a specific task to find the Resistance. Werner journeys through the heart of the battle, becoming increasingly conscious of the human cost of his intellect, and ultimately arrives in Saint-Malo, where the stories of he and Marie-Laure converge.

Doerr's "wonderful analogies and remarkable sense of physical detail" (San Francisco Chronicle) are astounding. He skillfully weaves together the stories of Werner and Marie-Laure to show how individuals attempt to be kind to one another despite all circumstances. All the Light We Cannot See, a brilliant and extraordinarily touching book that took 10 years to finish, was written by a writer "whose lines never fail to thrill" (Los Angeles Times).