Two sisters in Nazi-occupied France take divergent paths of resistance and survival during World War II.
Books mentioned in The Nightingale (3)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: “She had her favorite copy of Madame Bovary and the book everyone was reading—Autant en emporte le vent—and some clothes; no food or water.”
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: “She had her favorite copy of Madame Bovary and the book everyone was reading—Autant en emporte le vent—and some clothes; no food or water.”
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire: “The author's name—Baudelaire—was etched into the leather... Isabelle knew the volume. Les Fleurs du mal. The Flowers of Evil. It was the book they used to signal a meeting.”