![]() ![]() Moving from Alaska to Ohio to escape his fear of the future, they have a child: Grace. ![]() David fell in love with Sandy at a supermarket in Alaska ¬ as he dreamt he would. In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.ĭavid Winkler has lived on a remote Caribbean island for more than two decades, after running away from his former life, his wife Sandy and his daughter Grace. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. ![]()
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