Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Part Zero: 7 August 1944
Leaflets
Bombers
The Girl
The Boy
Saint-Malo
Number 4 rue Vauborel
Cellar
Bombs Away
Part One: 1934
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
Zollverein
Key Pound
Radio
Take Us Home
Something Rising
Light
Our Flag Flutters Before Us
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Professor
Sea of Flames
Open Your Eyes
Fade
The Principles of Mechanics
Rumors
Bigger Faster Brighter
Mark of the Beast
Good Evening. Or Heil Hitler if You Prefer.
Bye-bye, Blind Girl
Making Socks
Flight
Herr Siedler
Exodus
Part Two: 8 August 1944
Hotel of Bees
Down Six Flights
Trapped
Part Three: June 1940
Château
Entrance Exam
Brittany
Madame Manec
You Have Been Called
Occuper
Don’t Tell Lies
Etienne
Jungmänner
Vienna
The Boches
Hauptmann
Flying Couch
The Sum of Angles
Perfumer
Time of the Ostriches
Weakest
Mandatory Surrender
Museum
The Wardrobe
Blackbirds
Bath
Weakest (#2)
The Arrest of the Locksmith
Part Four: 8 August 1944
The Fort of La Cité
Atelier de Réparation
Two Cans
What They Have
Trip Wire
Part Five: January 1941
January Recess
He Is Not Coming Back
Prisoner
Plage du Môle
Lapidary
Entropy
The Rounds
Nadel im Heuhaufen
Proposal
You Have Other Friends
Old Ladies’ Resistance Club
Diagnosis
Weakest (#3)
Grotto
Intoxicated
The Blade and the Whelk
Alive Before You Die
No Out
The Disappearance of Hubert Bazin
Everything Poisoned
Visitors
The Frog Cooks
Orders
Pneumonia
Treatments
Heaven
Frederick
Relapse
Part Six: 8 August 1944
Someone in the House
The Death of Walter Bernd
Sixth-floor Bedroom
Making the Radio
In the Attic
Part Seven: August 1942
Prisoners
East
One Ordinary Loaf
Volkheimer
Fall
Sunflowers
Stones
Hunting
The Messages
Loudenvielle
Gray
Fever
The Third Stone
The Bridge
Rue des Patriarches
White City
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Telegram
Part Eight: 9 August 1944
Fort National
The Heads
Delirium
Water
The Beams
The Transmitter
Voice
Part Nine: May 1944
Edge of the World
Numbers
May
Hunting (Again)
“Clair de Lune”
Antenna
Big Claude
Boulangerie
Agoraphobia
Nothing
Forty Minutes
Little House
The Arrest of Etienne LeBlanc
7 August 1944
Part Ten: 12 August 1944
Entombed
Captain Nemo’s Last Words
Visitor
Final Sentence
Music #1
Music #2
Music #3
Out
Wardrobe
Comrades
The Simultaneity of Instants
Are You There?
Second Can
Birds of America
Cease-fire
Chocolate
Part Eleven: 1945
Berlin
Paris
Part Twelve: 1974
Jutta
Duffel
Laboratory
Paper Airplane
The Key
Part Thirteen: 2014
Acknowledgments
About Grace
Also by Anthony Doerr
About the Author
About the Publisher
