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  • Leonard

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    November 19, 2024 at 4:42 pm
    Easy | Engaging | Heavy | Philosophical

    A Beautifully Written Story

    I picked up this book after reading Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land. I’m not sure which one I like better. I suppose Cloud Cuckoo Land because it’s so whimsical.

    This story is more serious and closer to our own time. Marie-Laure is a blind French girl who has to flee Paris with her father to a coastal town in Brittany. Her father, who is master locksmith at the Museum of Natural History, builds a model of the town that she can trace with her fingers. By this, and by her own bold explorations, she learns her way around.

    Werner is a German orphan caught up in the Nazi youth movement. He is clever with radios and this skill affords him a chance to escape his impoverished circumstances attend an elite boarding school. But his skills soon attract the attention of the German military, who recruit him to build directional receivers that can locate the transmitters of Allied informants.

    What brings them together are the radio transmissions — the light we cannot see. In another time it was magical. In war what was magical becomes another tool to be exploited for political and economic ends — as it is with the people caught up in the war.

    It is a beautiful story, told with immense sensitivity. And, while not quite as much fun as Cloud Cuckoo Land, it is every bit as compelling.

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