In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her
husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. 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. When a German captain
requisitions Vianne's home, she and her daughter must live with the
enemy or lose everything. 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.
Vianne's sister, Isabelle,
is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all
the reckless passion of youth. 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. But when he betrays her, Isabelle
joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and
again to save others.
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.
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. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.
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