People keep asking me how I didn’t like this book. There was even a 20% period when my standards were reduced so low from the previous 70%, that I thought maybe, maybe 2*. And I actually don’t even mean that to be mean, or to pick on KH. Never have I ever read a book by such a clueless, air-headed author. Honestly, I want to ask them how they did. People keep asking me how I didn’t like this book. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.more 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 World War II 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 Gaëtan, 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, 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 good-bye 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 b In love we find out who we want to be. FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front.
She is spunky and positive.In love we find out who we want to be. Maïwenn as Rachel, Vianne’s Jewish best friend and fellow schoolteacher. He lives in Paris and suffers from PTSD from the first World War. Jean Dujardin as Monsieur Rossignol, Vianne and Isabelle’s father who gave up on raising them after their mother died. Max Riemelt as Captain Beck, a complicated German soldier who is quartered in Vianne’s home.
She is sweet and curious and sometimes takes to imitating her Aunt Isabelle’s more rebellious nature. He is kind and incredibly loyal to his wife and daughter.Įlle McKinnon as Sophie Mauriac, Vianne’s daughter. Guillaume Canet as Antoine Mauriac, Vianne’s husband who is captured during the war by the Germans. Gaspard Ulliel as Gaetan, a bold Frenchman who fights for the resistance. She is daring and assertive and has been kicked out of multiple boarding schools. She is anxious and cautious and is a local schoolteacher.Įlizabeth Debicki as Isabelle Rossignol, the younger of the sisters who desperately wants to fight back against the German occupation in any way she can. Below is my humble opinion on who would make for a great cast for The Nightingale:Ĭlémence Poésy as Vianne Rossignol Mauriac, the older of the sisters who must take care of her young daughter while her husband remains a prisoner of war. It was inspired by the story of a Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, who helped downed Allied pilots to escape Nazi territory. The book is a story of two very different sisters in France during Germany’s occupation of the country. In 2016 it was announced that ‘Game of Thrones’ Director Michelle MacLaren would direct the film for TriStar. The Nightingale is a novel by Kristin Hannah, published in 2015 that has sold over two million copies in the US.
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