BOOK REVIEW : THE NIGHTINGALE
Author : Kristin Hannah
Genre : Historical Fiction
"Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain."
I fell in love with this book one page after the other. Set in France during World War II, this book traces the work done by women to help their country. No one really talks about what women did to help their country during the war, this book celebrates their work and them.
The book begins just before World War II, depicting a family who was broken by World War I. This book maps WWII, showing how it affected lives.The plot follows the tale of two sisters, Vianne and Isabelle, with opposite personalities, trying to survive in their own way druring World War II. There are not many gruesome details of war in it but when people start dying that's when I realised that this is war we are talking about, millions of people died in it, as said by the author herself,"a whole generation dead." That's when it hits hard.
It just shows the reality of what war does to people, what it makes people do. There are so many reality checks, including the following one, "She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parch."
It is a saga of love, war, survival and right and wrong. There are so many emotional moments in this book, the last 50 pages especially! It is an emotional rollercoaster. This book is waiting to be made into a movie, it is such a beautiful book.
Everyone should read it to know why war is never an answer. Truly war affects everyone not men alone.
My Verdict- 5/5
I fell in love with this book one page after the other. Set in France during World War II, this book traces the work done by women to help their country. No one really talks about what women did to help their country during the war, this book celebrates their work and them.
The book begins just before World War II, depicting a family who was broken by World War I. This book maps WWII, showing how it affected lives.The plot follows the tale of two sisters, Vianne and Isabelle, with opposite personalities, trying to survive in their own way druring World War II. There are not many gruesome details of war in it but when people start dying that's when I realised that this is war we are talking about, millions of people died in it, as said by the author herself,"a whole generation dead." That's when it hits hard.
It just shows the reality of what war does to people, what it makes people do. There are so many reality checks, including the following one, "She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parch."
It is a saga of love, war, survival and right and wrong. There are so many emotional moments in this book, the last 50 pages especially! It is an emotional rollercoaster. This book is waiting to be made into a movie, it is such a beautiful book.
Everyone should read it to know why war is never an answer. Truly war affects everyone not men alone.
My Verdict- 5/5
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