Characters in All the Light We Cannot See

Marie-Laure LeBlanc

A blind French girl who flees Paris with her locksmith father and takes refuge with her great-uncle in Saint-Malo.

Werner Pfennig

A German orphan from a mining town whose talent for building and repairing radios draws him into the machinery of the Reich.

Reinhold von Rumpel

A German sergeant major and gemologist hunting the diamond known as the Sea of Flames.

Etienne LeBlanc

Marie-Laure's reclusive great-uncle in Saint-Malo, a veteran of the previous war who rarely leaves his house.

Daniel LeBlanc

Marie-Laure's father, locksmith at the Paris Museum of Natural History, who builds her scale models of the streets she must learn.

Madame Manec

Etienne's housekeeper and cook, who befriends Marie-Laure and joins the local resistance.

Jutta Pfennig

Werner's younger sister, who questions from the beginning what the war is asking of him.

Frank Volkheimer

An enormous staff sergeant who serves alongside Werner in the German army's radio-tracking unit.

Frederick (All the Light We Cannot See)

Frau Elena