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A fractured tale of time, war and a really big diamond. Deftly interweaving the lives of marielaure and werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Doerrs gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Chateau after walking for two days, marielaure and her father reach the museum directors friends home in evereux, only to find it burning and being looted.
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