And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero - Jacques Lusseyran

Written by Jacques Lusseyran
Read by Andre Gregory
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 56 Kbps
Abridged

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II

Publisher: New World Library
Release date: February 1, 2014
Duration: 04:29:28

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

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. (This digital audiobook was created from the only remaining analog source and contains a slight tape hiss.)

“–Andre Gregory. Gregory reads in a beautiful, evenly paced voice, which is perfectly suited to the work. The action flows from one episode to another; the abridgment goes unnoticed. This audiobook will touch your soul and light the world around you.”— Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award