![]() Books: Arabian Jazz (Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993) Crescent (W. Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. She is also the author of a memoir, The Language of Baklava, and Origin (2007) the first in a new mystery series staring Lena, a highly gifted, intuitive fingerprint expert. In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of ![]() ![]() And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. Arabian Jazz (1993) - Oregon Book Award (1994) Crescent (2003) - PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction (1994), Twenty Noteworthy Novels of 2003 by The. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. ![]() 'Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.'įor Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. She divides her time between Portland, Oregon, and Miami, Florida. ![]() WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONĪ beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of Crescent, Arabian Jazz, and The Language of Baklava. ![]()
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