Book Club
Thu 16 Oct
|Lucyd
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
Lucyd, 45 Samil-daero 32-gil, Jongno District, 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 at Lucy’d, Australian brunch cafe in Jongno.
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…