She makes her way to Vianne, and they reconcile. She undergoes hellish conditions at the camp but survives long enough to see the end of the war. ![]() She is eventually captured, and after her father falsely confesses to being the Nightingale to save her, she is sent to a concentration camp in Germany. She earns the code name "Nightingale", and is actively hunted by the Nazis. She is successful, and with support from other Resistance operators (including her father, with whom she begins to rebuild a relationship) and the British MI9, this becomes her primary task throughout the war. After moving to a cell in Paris, she develops a plan to help downed Allied airmen escape to the British embassy in neutral Spain, where they can be repatriated. In Carriveau, she joins the French Resistance and is initially tasked with distributing anti-Nazi propaganda. After being expelled from finishing school, she travels from Paris to Carriveau on foot, meeting a young rebel named Gaëtan Dubois along the way. Isabelle, the younger and more impetuous sister, decides to take an active role in resisting the occupation. When the war ends, Antoine returns from the POW camp, but Vianne must still cope with the aftermath of the occupation-she is pregnant as a result of Von Richter's rape, and Ari, whom she has come to love as a son, is taken away to be raised by his cousins in the United States. Meanwhile, Von Richter uses sexual violence as a means of control over Vianne. Soon after, Vianne becomes responsible for hiding nineteen more Jewish children in a nearby abbey's orphanage. Later in the novel when Vianne's best friend, Rachel de Champlain, is deported to a concentration camp, she adopts Rachel's three-year-old son, Ari, and renames him "Daniel" to hide his Jewish identity. The second is Von Richter, a more sadistic officer who subjects Vianne to physical and sexual abuse. ![]() The first officer billeted at her home is Wolfgang Beck, a kindly man with a family he's left behind. At home, Vianne copes with the occupation of France after the Battle of France, struggling to keep herself and her daughter alive in the face of poor food rations, the dwindling francs left behind by Antoine, the billeting of Wehrmacht and SS officers at her home, the loss of her job, and the increasing persecution of the Jews in town. ![]() Vianne's husband Antoine is drafted and subsequently captured as a prisoner of war. Vianne, the eldest sister, is a married schoolteacher raising her 8-year-old daughter Sophie in her childhood home named Le Jardin in the town of Carriveau. The two sisters are estranged from each other and their father, and the book follows the two different paths they take. However, the main action of the book is told in third-person, following two sisters, Vianne Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol, who live in France around 1939, on the eve of World War II. ![]() It is only known that she has a son named Julien and that she lives off the coast of Oregon. The book uses the frame story literary device the frame is presented in first-person narration as the remembrances of an elderly woman in 1995, whose name is initially not revealed to the reader. The novel was optioned for a screen adaptation by TriStar Pictures in March 2015, with Melanie Laurent signed on to direct the film. The Nightingale entered multiple bestseller lists upon release and as of 2021, has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide and been published in 45 languages. The book was inspired by the story of a Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, who helped downed Allied pilots escape Nazi territory. The book tells the story of two sisters in France during World War II and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation of France. The Nightingale is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. 2015 historical fiction novel by Kristin Hannah The Nightingale
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