Jacques Lusseyran

And There Was Light

320 pages, ISBN 0-930407-03-2 / 978-0-930407-03-2, paperback Parabola

Blinded at age eight, Lusseyran nevertheless became an important student leader in the French Resistance, was arrested by the Gestapo and survived imprisonment at Buchenwald. This spellbinding and inspirational memoir reveals to us his unique experience of blindness. For Lusseyran, becoming blind brought an extraordinary gift of "inner sight" reaching far beyond ordinary senses. (Also available as audio cassette)