![]() ![]() He has already secreted his most precious possession: his love. When he is later captured, his interrogators have no idea how little he has to lose. His real purpose, however, is bringing his daughter to safety. When Marie-Laure and her father depart Paris, Daniel tucks the gem - or its double - in his bag. The book also orbits around the nature of sacrifice. ![]() A sinister gem collector named Von Rumpel enters the narrative, chasing the Sea of Flames, which Daniel may possess as he and Marie-Laure flee to Brittany. During the novel, Hitler rises to power, overreaches, attempting to acquire all of Europe, and begins sowing the seeds of his own downfall. ![]() One of them involves possession and its dangers. Doerr, however, has packed each of his scenes with such refractory material that “All the Light We Cannot See” reflects a dazzling array of themes. ![]() The neat symmetry of Marie-Laure and Werner’s childhoods - one spent in darkness, the other exploring sound - would seem too obvious a mirror in another writer’s hands. When he repairs a Nazi’s radio, he earns himself a scholarship to a school that will point him directly into the path of the coming war. He tunes into musical broadcasts from France and uses his skills - when asked - to fix small, broken appliances. Across the border in Germany, a young boy named Werner Pfennig grows up in an orphanage with a sister and a precocious interest in radios. ![]()
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