All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr

Marie-Laure lives with her father near the Natural History Museum in Paris. When Marie-Laure is six years old, she goes blind and her father builds her a perfect miniature of the neighborhood. When Marie-Laure is 12, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo. Carrying with them the museum's most precious and dangerous jewel.

In a German mining town, orphan Werner grows up with his sister and is fascinated by the crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and repairing this important new piece of equipment, and his talents lead him to the cruel academy for Hitlerjugend, where he is later given a special assignment to track down the resistance. Realizing the human cost of his espionage, Werner travels through the fires of war and finally arrives in St. Malo, where his story and that of Marie-Laure intersect.