As the Germans invade Paris, Isabelle begins the trek to her sister’s home, witnessing the atrocities committed by the invading troops firsthand. Vianne’s husband, Antoine, has been called to report to the Army, leaving Vianne and their young daughter, Sophie, behind. When the occupation begins, Isabelle is sent to stay with Vianne in the country, being cast out of Paris by her father. It is a heart wrenching, beautiful and tragic story.Īs the older sister, Vianne feels responsible for keeping her younger sister, Isabelle, safe. As the reader, you get to see the war that was taking place on the home front from each sister’s unique vantage point. Their parallel stories are as different as their personalities, but are just as suspenseful, complicated, and emotional. Spanning the years of the war, this riveting story follows two sisters, Vianne and Isabelle, as they struggle to survive and persevere through the Nazi invasion. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah is a historical fiction, set in German-occupied France during WWII. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.īook Review: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France–a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth.

Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.

When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front.

Narrator: Third Person from Vianne’s and Isabelle’s point of viewīook Summary: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

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