Pulitzer Prize winner, one of the ten best books of the New York Times Book Review, and finalist for the National Book Award, this stunning bestseller by Anthony Doerr tells the story of a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths cross in occupied France as they both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Natural History Museum, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them, they carry what could be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphaned boy Werner Pfennig grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a primitive radio.