A blind French girl hides in her great-uncle's house in besieged Saint-Malo with a legendary cursed diamond, while a German orphan boy conscripted into the Wehrmacht for his gift with radios is sent to hunt the Resistance transmission she depends on, their paths converging as Allied bombs fall on the walled city in August 1944.
Books mentioned in All the Light We Cannot See (6)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: “She reads the first half of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea so many times, she practically memorizes it.”
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne: “She has read Around the World in Eighty Days until the Braille is soft and fraying.”
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: “for this year's birthday, her father has bought her an even fatter book: Dumas's The Three Musketeers.”
The Birds of America by John James Audubon: “In the corner of her great-uncle's study, amid a tumult of books, he finds a copy of Birds of America.”
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: “he does have Darwin, he says, and reads to her from The Voyage of the Beagle...”
The Principles of Mechanics by Heinrich Hertz: “Werner's mind drifts; he is thinking about the book in his lap, The Principles of Mechanics by Heinrich Hertz.”