The main world bestseller of 2015-2016.
France, 1939. In the cozy and sleepy village of Carriveau, Vianna Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, who is leaving to fight the Germans. She does not believe that the Nazis will invade France... But soon they are marching past her house, rows of tanks rumble, the sky is barely visible from the planes dropping bombs. War has come to the quiet French wilderness. Vianna has a choice: either let a German officer stay, or lose everything, possibly even her life.
Isabelle Mauriac, a rebellious and wayward eighteen-year-old girl, is determined to fight the invaders. Reckless and risky, she is ready to do anything, but her father forces her to go to the village to her older sister. Having fallen under a German bombing with other refugees, Isabelle meets Gaeton in the midst of chaos and death and falls in love as recklessly as she does everything in this life. This is how her path to the Resistance begins. She does not look back and does not regret her actions, again and again risking her life she saves people. Each of the two sisters, so different in character and destiny, leads her own war.
"The Nightingale" is an epic novel about war, sacrifice, suffering and great love. A heartbreakingly beautiful novel that has become a true hymn to women's courage and strength of spirit. A novel for everyone, a novel for life.
Kristin Hannah's book became the main world bestseller of 2015, readers and a whole bunch of printed publications called it the unconditional best novel of the year. Since 2016, "The Nightingale" has begun its triumphant march around the world, the book has already been published or is about to be published in 39 countries.
The #1 bestseller in the US for all of 2015. Over 1.5 million copies sold. The best novel of 2015 according to readers of the book portal Goodreads. 72,000 people voted for the novel. Over 22,000 reviews in the Amazon book store. The best novel according to: New York Time; Sbuzzfeed; iTunes; Library Journal; Paste Selfcom; The Wall Street Journal; The Week
Author: Kristin Hannah
Translation: Alexandrova M.A.
Year of issue: 2022
Publisher: Phantom Press
Pages: 448
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 217x145x31 mm
ISBN: 978-5-86471-739-4