![]() Meanwhile, Von Richter uses sexual violence as a means of control over Vianne. ![]() Soon after, Vianne becomes responsible for hiding nineteen more Jewish children in a nearby abbey's orphanage. Later in the novel when Vianne's best friend, Rachel de Champlain, is deported to a concentration camp, she adopts Rachel's three-year-old son, Ari, and renames him "Daniel" to hide his Jewish identity. The second is Von Richter, a more sadistic officer who subjects Vianne to physical and sexual abuse. The first officer billeted at her home is Wolfgang Beck, a kindly man with a family he's left behind. At home, Vianne copes with the occupation of France after the Battle of France, struggling to keep herself and her daughter alive in the face of poor food rations, the dwindling francs left behind by Antoine, the billeting of Wehrmacht and SS officers at her home, the loss of her job, and the increasing persecution of the Jews in town. Vianne's husband Antoine is drafted and subsequently captured as a prisoner of war. Vianne, the eldest sister, is a married schoolteacher raising her 8-year-old daughter Sophie in her childhood home named Le Jardin in the town of Carriveau. The two sisters are estranged from each other and their father, and the book follows the two different paths they take. ![]() However, the main action of the book is told in third-person, following two sisters, Vianne Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol, who live in France around 1939, on the eve of World War II. It is only known that she has a son named Julien and that she lives off the coast of Oregon. ![]() The book uses the frame story literary device the frame is presented in first-person narration as the remembrances of an elderly woman in 1995, whose name is initially not revealed to the reader. ![]()
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