ASIN: B00RJFEAAU
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 109
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Anthony Doerr offers a gripping tale of World War II and its aftermath in the National Book Award Finalist novel. A departure from much of the historical fiction and reported history of the time, the book is an excellent read, well worth the honor heaped upon it. It offers new insights into the effects of that war on those who fought in and lived through it, increasingly valuable as the Greatest Generation passes into history. The connection to real places and events does much to enhance the text’s verisimilitude, allowing it to function as an immersive narrative.
The novel relates the interwoven stories of the blind Marie-Laure LeBlanc, the orphaned and diminutive Werner Pfennig and others as they are brought into the globe-spanning conflict that was the Second World War. The plot centers but does not focus upon the fate of the Sea ...
