The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- mai 25, 2020
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Some books tend to be amazing; they
stick in your mind for a long time because they moved you in a way you’ve never
felt before. The Nightingale was one of them and it has become one of my
favourite books I’ve read this year. You know now that I’m passionate about
history and I love to read a good book on the WW2 topic. But be careful with
those, they are heavy and heart-breaking as they tend to be based on real
events, even if it’s a fiction. This one was a fiction, but it was still based
on the reality of France during WW2. As a French who lived in the countryside
and now in Paris, it was hard to see my country depicted like this. It’s not
like in the movies, at all…
The Nightingale is the story of two
sisters. Lianne lives in the countryside with her husband and daughter, she cares
for her family and she is loving towards those she loves. Isabelle lives in
Paris, she is brave and fearless, young but has strong conviction and wants to change
the world. She does not settle into anything, she needs more. And one day, the
war starts. Lianne’s husband must go and fight while she has to stay at home
and take care of everything alone and survive as best as she can. She has to handle
a lot of issues throughout the years and she becomes unrecognizable. Her sister
is turning into someone else as well, but who doesn’t during the war? They both
had to do hard choices in order to survive, do good and help people.

This book was so interesting because
of all the details and precision. It shows the horrors of the war, but also
how it was a war of women. Both women in this book are changing because they
saw and lived things that made them stronger. They both decide to help those
who need it because they can. That’s who they choose to be, and I think it’s
amazing. It was not just war for a few months and a country cut into halves
with French living side by side with Germans. No, it was a war were women
needed to survive, to eat, to live through winter, to co-exist with Nazis.
Women whose husbands did not return, women whose friends were Jews and were sent
away for ever. It was the resistance, the camps, the bombing and the “nice” Nazis.
It was all of that and this book shows it all. And for that, you must read it
if you can.
I would advise this book for people
who are interested in the war, who are capable reading a heavy book with difficult
moments that could make you cry. But you must read this book if you have the
opportunity because it’s important to always remember this war.
Have you read it yet? Tell me what you thought
of it or if history books are your jam?
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