Book Club
Thu 16 Oct
|Yeonnam-dong
Join us to discuss All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. In this WWII historical novel set in Saint-Malo, Paris, and Germany, a young blind girl, Marie-Laure, and her father flee to her great-uncle’s home by the water after her father leaves his job at Paris’s Museum of Natural History.
Time & Location
16 Oct 2025, 12:00 – 14:00
Yeonnam-dong, Yeonnam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
About the event
Join us to discuss Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See. We will meet on the third Thursday of the month, October 16, 12:00-2:00 pm in Yeonnam-dong, exact location TBD.
In Doerr’s WWII historical novel set in Saint-Malo, Paris, and Germany, a young blind girl, Marie-Laure, and her devoted father flee to her great-uncle’s home by the water after her father leaves his job at Paris’s Museum of Natural History with a rare stone. But is the object bringing them bad luck?
The story revolves around the characters Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl who takes refuge in her great-uncle's house in Saint-Malo after Paris is invaded by Nazi Germany, and Werner Pfennig, a bright German boy who is accepted into a military school because of his skills in radio technology. The book alternates between paralleling chapters depicting Marie-Laure and Werner, framed with a nonlinear structure. The novel has…