The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr\'s All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident.
His gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published..
He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive.
Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand Resistance fighters.
Lusseyran formed a Resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best.
In 1941, when he was seventeen, that World was Nazi-occupied France.
He finished his schooling determined to participate in the World around him.
The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr\'s All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident
