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Book Review from page 30 greatest treasures in all forms of art. Hitler plans to create what survives is the uplifting, indomitable good that
at the end of the war the largest museum ever built, to cannot be extinguished in some of humanity.
What ultimately saves him is his skill with radios, which house all of the art stolen from the various conquered All the Light We Cannot See will most assuredly be
is highly valuable to the Nazis. nations. Von Rumpel has heard of the legendary diamond made into a motion picture. You owe it to yourself to read
Werner’s story – witnessing the contradiction between at the Paris Museum of Natural History. He has another, the book first. Nothing will compare to this original story.
Nazi propaganda of their army’s great victories even as desperate reason for his search: von Rumpel is gravely ill, I have thought about it and cannot imagine who could
the devastation and corpses pile up around him while and if the curse surrounding the Sea of Flames diamond play the four roles of Marie-Laure and Werner as their
he serves in Russia and then retreats across Europe into is true he will not succumb to his illness but will live young and teenage characters. The one thing I do know
France and, finally, Saint-Malo – takes up most of the forever. is that I hope my daughters will permit me to take them
other half of the book. One of Werner’s most important What makes this novel so remarkable is not only the to the film as soon as it comes to the theatre.
assignments is to determine the location of radio story, which is beautiful and memorable in itself, but
broadcasts, especially those being sent by the Resistance the unique style in which the author decided to tell it. It *****
to Allied forces with messages about German military is a story that spans a period of 80 years, from 1934 to
placements, so that the transmitters and their senders can 2014, but is not told as a straight chronological narrative. All I can say now is, “I told you so.” Way back then,
be wiped out. Instead, in chapters of mostly two and three pages, the book eventually stayed on the national bestseller
In Saint-Malo, those broadcasts are coming from the sometimes of only a page, we are transported quickly lists for more than 200 weeks! And the much-heralded
house where now 16-year-old Marie-Laure lives with her from 1944 to 1945 and back again to 1944 or to the late new film version – on TV screens rather than theatres –
uncle, Etienne. 1930s ... and from one character’s life to another’s. It all has received mixed reactions from critics and preview
While Marie-Laure and Werner are the two main moves so smoothly that, each time I began to read, before audiences, most notably because the screenwriters made
characters, there are others as well. One of them is I had a moment to look up I had already turned at least so many changes that The Hollywood Reporter wrote, “By
Sergeant-Major Reinhold von Rumpel, who has been 60 or 70 pages. the third episode the plot barely resembled the novel.” If
assigned by the Nazis to scour Europe in search of the In the end, after all the horrors and tragedy of war, you didn’t take my recommendation the first time, do it
now. Read the book.

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