Jacques Lusseyran

And There Was Light (eBook, ePUB)

The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See

An 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New World Library
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608682706
• Artikelnr.: 40470799

Autorenporträt

Jacques Lusseyran (19241971) became a professor in the United States at Case Western Reserve University after World War II. He died in a car accident in France.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Clear Water of Childhood
2. Revelation of Light
3. The Cure for Blindness
4. Running Mates and Teachers
5. My Friend Jean
6. The Visual Bind
7. The Troubled Earth
8. My Country, My War
9. The Faceless Disaster
10. The Plunge into Courage
11. The Brotherhood of Resistance
12. Our Own Defense of France
13. Betrayal and Arrest
14. The Road to Buchenwald
15. The Living and the Dead
16. My New World
Epilogue
Addendum