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kareilaThis is probably the least depressing book about Nazi Germany I have read? It's still pretty brutal in parts, and I am definitely over this whole genre, but my book club keeps circling back to it.
The two main characters are a blind girl from Paris and a radio engineer from rural Germany, both sixteen and intelligent and curious, each trapped by circumstance, whose lives are destined to overlap at a crucial moment.
Structurally, it reminded me of the movie Dunkirk and its braided timelines. The story starts at a particular point (the Allied bombing of Saint-Malo) and then alternates those immediate events with the backstory explaining how the characters got there and why we should care, ending with a series of epilogues showing what happened to the survivors decades later. It's quite bittersweet.
The two main characters are a blind girl from Paris and a radio engineer from rural Germany, both sixteen and intelligent and curious, each trapped by circumstance, whose lives are destined to overlap at a crucial moment.
Structurally, it reminded me of the movie Dunkirk and its braided timelines. The story starts at a particular point (the Allied bombing of Saint-Malo) and then alternates those immediate events with the backstory explaining how the characters got there and why we should care, ending with a series of epilogues showing what happened to the survivors decades later. It's quite bittersweet.
