The Nightingale
A Novel
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4.8 • 41 calificaciones
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- $249.00
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- $249.00
Descripción editorial
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.
With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II 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.
Goodreads Best Historical Novel of the Year • People's Choice Favorite Fiction Winner • #1 Indie Next Selection • A Buzzfeed and The Week Best Book of the Year
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"In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are," Hannah's narrator, Viann Mauriac, proclaims as she looks back on her life in France. The bestselling author hits her stride in this page-turning tale about two sisters, one in the French countryside, the other in Paris, who show remarkable courage in the German occupation during WWII. Through Viann we learn how life was disrupted when husbands and fathers were forced to enlist while the Germans took over their towns and villages, billeting themselves in people's homes, gorging on food, and forcing the starved locals to wait in endless lines for rations. Viann's younger sister, Isabelle, always rebellious, joins the resistance in Paris, finds love with another resistance fighter, and risks her life guiding downed British and American paratroopers over the Pyrenees and out of France. Viann does her part too, saving 19 Jewish children by hiding them in a convent. Despite having a German officer in her own home, she also takes in a Jewish baby her best friend's son when his mother is sent to a concentration camp. The author ably depicts war's horrors through the eyes of these two women, whose strength of character shines through no matter their differences. Announced first printing of 350,000 copies.
Reseñas de clientes
Loved it
Couldnt stop reading !
Lovely book
I took the great decision of reading this book, you will love it, don't doubt even a little on reading it.
This Story of two sisters that if you think it when you finish reading it, they never had it easy.
They had a difficult life, but nothing was worse till the WW2 came along to their life.
This book will make you ask yourself, how can people do this to other human beings, the suffering of millions of people children, women, man, the old, the hunger its something I will never understand.
You even hate sometimes the weather why was it that cold, but in the other hand, it gives sight of the brave women, children, old people that fought in other ways as the young men did making invaluable their help during this inhuman and not understandable war.
No lo pude soltar
Excelente, me hizo reir y llorar. Gran libro