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Author:
Hannah, Kristin.
Title:
The nightingale [BCD (books on CD)] / Kristin Hannah.
Format:
[BCD (books on CD)] /
Edition:
Unabridged.
Publisher:
Distributed by TEI Landmark Audio
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
14 audio discs (17 hr., 30 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject:
Sisters--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--France--Fiction.
Contemporary Women--Fiction.
Love stories.
France--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.
War stories.
Other Authors:
Stone, Polly.
TEI Landmark Audio.
Macmillan Audio (Firm).
Notes:
Compact disc media. Unabridged. Read by Polly Stone.
Summary:
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes Kristin Hannah's next novel. It is an epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II.
In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are. FRANCE, 1939 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 G©Þetan, 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.
Vianne and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Vianne lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Vianne and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope. As the war progresses, it's not only the sisters' relationship that is tested, but also their strength and their individual senses of right and wrong.
ISBN:
1427212678
9781427212672
Locations:
YMPD532 -- Ross & Elizabeth Baty Public Library (Monticello)
XPPC367 -- Sidney Public Library (Sidney)

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