This is where Amir and his wife Soraya live and raise their family. Amir leaves Afghanistan and moves to California with his father, Baba, who works at a gas station.
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This is where Amir meets Rahim Khan and where he is treated after being hurt by Assef.
This is where the main character, Amir lived and grew up. It is also where the traumatic life-changing event occurs and where Amir returns to adopt his best friend's son after the war.
Krawiecka Street is located near the ghettos. Chana often sneaks off to this street to explore the House of Culture. The location of this place is significant because it is outside the ghetto. Chana is risking her life by escaping the ghettos to experience this place of music since she would almost definetly be killed if she were caught. It provides her with a small amount of hope and joy amidst the chaos that surrounds her. She tries to convince her family that "there was enough room for everyone, how we could hide there for days if we had to" (132). Chana contemplates hiding here because it is spacious similarly to how victims of the Holocaust tried to or contemplated hiding in places similar to the House of Culture.
This was the location of another concentratrion camp that Chana and her grandmother Bubbe were sent to. On the train ride to the camp, a woman on the train says they are going there "to work, to starve, to die" (183). Although this is a fictional novel, it accurately depicts the horrific reality of concentration camps during the Holocaust. When they finally arrive, "the air was thick and sticky, the sky was unnaturally pink. We could smell something cooking, burning" (184). During the Holocaust, German Nazis established camps in Poland where Jewish people were to be exterminated. This means that the smell of something burning was peoples' bodies being burned as a way to exterminate them and as a way for Nazis to hide all the evidence of their horrific actions. Chana, her grandmother Bubbe, and the others on the train were a very far way from home and the location of this camp made them more fearful of what they were about to endure.
Vianne moves to America after the war with her son Julien, named after her father to escape the horrible memories of her past. In 1995, Vianne is invited to give a speech in Paris in honor of her sister, Isabelle's work in the French Resistance. There, Vianne tells her son most of the truth of her life during the war, but does not disclose that his father is the German soldier who raped her.
Sought out by German officials, Isabelle is a target known as the Nightingale as she has been a successful spy for the Resistance. Isabelle is captured when she goes back to visit Vianne and is sent to concentration camps. Isabelle survives the multiple camps, but due to mistreatment is in poor condition at the end of the war.
Isabelle works to save a British airman after he crashes in an M19 in occupied France. In order to save him from becoming a POW, Isabelle "The Nightingale", is instructed to escort him to Spain to get him safely to the British Embassy.
Isabelle fleas to German-occupied Paris to work for the french Resistance . Isabelle reconnects with her father, Julien, and rebuilds their relationship. Their apartment is at Avenue de le Bourdonnais. Isabelle meets Gaetan and has a relationship with him.
France 1939 - German occupied France
- The French countryside. The book follows the storylines of two sisters, Vianne and Isabelle. Vianne lives in Carriveau and is married to Antoine, but Antoine is drafted and sent to the front lines.