Vianne attacks a German soldier to save Isabelle. Vianne and Isabelle had a tumultuous relationship growing up, but during the war each strives to protect the other as best they can.
The love between sisters also survives the horror of war. When Jewish Rachel is taken away to a concentration camp, Vianne risks her own life to save Rachel’s son. In her small French hometown, Vianne and her best friend Rachel encourage and help one another to keep supporting their families, whether that is with words or by sharing the last morsels of food. The bonds of friendship are a potent force. The Nightingale is an affirmation of the power of all the forms of love to survive and thrive in the worst conditions imaginable. The Nightingale offers inspiration and hope with its themes about unbreakable love, heroic sacrifice, and the miracle of children.
Yet the depravities man conducts are but a foil to the heights of heroism to which everyday people can rise. This book does not spare the reader from the awful depths that man can sink to. By focusing on these two sisters’ very different but equally difficult paths through the war, The Nightingale succeeds in powerfully conveying the reality of the horror, the magnitude of the losses, the utter wrecking of lives in World War II. The story follows two French sisters, Vianne and Isabelle, from the time the first rumbles of World War II begin to affect France to immediately after the end of the war. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah is a truly compelling historical fiction novel: inspiring, humbling, thought-provoking, and devastating in turn.
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