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Days ahead of the bombing to liberate Saint-Malo, Etienne is arrested and put in a prison miles offshore.
And then that man dies.
He winds up in a camp in Germany and writes a few letters to Marie until they eventually stop.
They never learn how he died.
Unfortunately, this man counting steps and mapping out locations draws the attention of the Germans.
After he sufficiently creates a misleading trail, he can return to his daughter safe and sound.
However, as soon as he arrives in Paris, Von Rumpel finds him and arrests him.
Marie-Laure listens from the attic as Werner comes into the house and shoots Von Rumpel.
The two share a can of peaches and talk as they wait out the rest of the bombing.
Before he helps get her out of the city, Marie takes Werner to the grotto.
his superiors to make it protect her.
He runs into the house and finds Von Rumpel pretty much holding Marie hostage in the attic.
Its there that she meets a scientist at the Museum of Natural History named Marie-Laure LeBlanc.
She tells her brother not to let them change who he is.
Jutta cant hug her beloved brother, but shedoeshug that radio!
Marie-Laures future
What happens in the novel:Marie never returns to Saint-Malo.
Jutta arrives in 1974 with the model house Marie hasnt thought about for years, and it unmoors her.
Marie cant believe Werner went back to the grotto for the house.
Was it because he wanted a memento of his short time with her?
She wants to believe that he, too, left the cursed jewel behind.
We meet Marie-Laure one last time, in 2014.
Here, she walks the streets of Paris with her young grandson.
The world has moved on from the horrors of what happened, and Marie has tried to as well.
