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It explores the impact of legends and artifacts on individual lives and the contrasting perspectives on value and existence in a world shadowed by war and suffering, as exemplified through Marie-Laure's story. Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer.
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Thank you for downloading this Scribner eBook. Of the buildings within the walls, only remained standing and all were damaged to some degree. They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses. Entire streets swirl with them, flashing white against the cobbles. Urgent message to the inhabitants of this town, they say. Depart immediately to open country.
The tide climbs. The moon hangs small and yellow and gibbous. On the rooftops of beachfront hotels to the east, and in the gardens behind them, a halfdozen American artillery units drop incendiary rounds into the mouths of mortars. Bombers They cross the Channel at midnight. The sea glides along far below, spattered with the countless chevrons of whitecaps. Soon enough, the navigators can discern the low moonlit lumps of islands ranged along the horizon. Intercoms crackle.
