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Indlæser... The Nightingale: A Novel (udgave 2015)af Kristin Hannah (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstrÃ¥de pÃ¥ Snak om denne bog. Too boring Excellent story of survival of two sisters in WW II France under German control.KIRKUS REVIEWHannah?s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II.In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon. This trajectory is interrupted when she receives an invitation to return to France to attend a ceremony honoring passeurs: people who aided the escape of others during the war. Cut to spring, 1940: Viann has said goodbye to husband Antoine, who's off to hold the Maginot line against invading Germans. She returns to tending her small farm, Le Jardin, in the Loire Valley, teaching at the local school and coping with daughter Sophie?s adolescent rebellion. Soon, that world is upended: The Germans march into Paris and refugees flee south, overrunning Viann?s land. Her long-estranged younger sister, Isabelle, who has been kicked out of multiple convent schools, is sent to Le Jardin by Julien, their father in Paris, a drunken, decidedly unpaternal Great War veteran. As the depredations increase in the occupied zone¥food rationing, systematic looting, and the billeting of a German officer, Capt. Beck, at Le JardinÂ¥Isabelle?s outspokenness is a liability. She joins the Resistance, volunteering for dangerous duty: shepherding downed Allied airmen across the Pyrenees to Spain. Code-named the Nightingale, Isabelle will rescue many before she's captured. Meanwhile, Viann?s journey from passive to active resistance is less dramatic but no less wrenching. Hannah vividly demonstrates how the Nazis, through starvation, intimidation and barbarity both casual and calculated, demoralized the French, engineering a community collapse that enabled the deportations and deaths of more than 70,000 Jews. Hannah?s proven storytelling skills are ideally suited to depicting such cataclysmic events, but her tendency to sentimentalize undermines the gravitas of this tale.Still, a respectful and absorbing page-turner. An immensely moving story of two sisters, Vianne and Isabelle, and their challenges growing up after losing their mother and then the almost abandonment by their father. How they deal with those challenges is part of their story and leads in to the way they handle WW2 when it hits France. They both faced incredible difficulties and survived when many did not. The story is well written, although gut-wrenching and hard to read about the suffering of the people in France under Hitler’s reign. I have a better understanding of what life was like during this time period. Whew this book is a hard read. The history is cruel and difficult to read. I cannot fathom how people survived such hardship. I love the for powerful stories and the sacrifices so many women and men made. This is a story about survival and resilience. There is redemption in the end of the book, thankfully. Indeholder elevguideHæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
Nazisternes besættelse ændrer livet for de to franske søstre Isabelle og Viviane. På hver deres måde må de klare livet, men de redder også begge livet for andre. No library descriptions found. |
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