And There Was Light by Jacques Lusseyran
The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot SeeAn 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. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive. His gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published.
Lusseyran, Jacques: - Jacques Lusseyran lost his sight at eight years of age. In World War II France, he founded at sixteen and a half a resistance network which brought together two thousand high school and university students. He was arrested and sent to Buchenwald. Later he became a professor of literature in an American university. His wife died with him in an automobile accident in 1971. He was forty-seven years old.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781608682690 |
| ISBN 10 | 1608682692 |
| Title | And There Was Light |
| Author | Jacques Lusseyran |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New World Library |
| Year published | 2014-03-18 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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