<P> Set in occupied France during World War II, the novel centers on a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths eventually cross . </P> <P> In 1934, 6 year old Marie - Laure LeBlanc is the daughter of a widowed master locksmith at the Museum of Natural History in Paris whom she often accompanies to work . Marie suffered from rapidly deteriorating eyesight secondary to juvenile cataracts, becoming fully blind at the age of 6 . Her father enriches her environment, crafting a wooden scale - model of their neighborhood in Paris for her to memorize by touch . He spends hours walking with her to various points in the actual neighborhood and supervising her so that she is eventually able to navigate independently . He uses her birthday as an opportunity to develop her sense of touch, providing increasingly intricate puzzle boxes every year . Her father provides new novels in braille to read . She becomes entranced by the imagined worlds like those that she explores in her edition of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea . </P> <P> The museum where Marie - Laure's father works as a locksmith is rumored to house an exquisite blue diamond of immeasurable value, with beautiful dancing "red flames" at its center: According to legend, however, the diamond is cursed: whoever keeps the "Sea of Flames" cannot die but their loved ones will be stricken with unending misfortunes . </P> <P> Meanwhile, in Germany, 8 - year - old Werner Pfennig is an orphan in the coal - mining town of Zollverein . He and his sister Jutta find a broken short - wave radio behind the Children's Home where they live . Werner manages to repair the radio and his natural skill for circuitry becomes apparent . He and Jutta tune in and listen to a variety of programs, including a regular broadcast from France hosted by an older gentleman who shares stories about the world of science, skillfully framed so that even younger listeners can understand . </P>

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