

This is told in tiny, flashing chapters – each one a gem on its own. Entrusted with the Sea of Flames or perhaps its copy, he takes his daughter to Saint-Malo to escape the invasion of Paris. LeBlanc, Marie-Laure’s father, is a locksmith.

The gem has been cursed and hidden away behind 13 doors in the Natural Museum where M. It is also the story of Werner Pfenning, a boy genius with technology and radios who is conscripted into the German army.Īnd, wonderfully, Light is also a fable of a fabulous diamond called The Sea of Flames. The story of Marie-Laure, a blind girl left behind in Saint-Malo when her father is brought to prison in Germany. Doerr's novel is told with soaring language and endlessly inventive turns of phrase.
