| Sarah's Key |  | Author: Tatiana de Rosnay
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  552 reviews
Sales Rank: 82
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
Publication Date: April 1, 2010
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Product Description
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.
Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.
Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.
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 Love this book - Must read...! September 3, 2010
Michelle B. (Pennsylvania)
This is one of those books that you can't wait to see what happens, but you don't want the story to end..... Even though I cried, I loved this story.
One of finest Holocaust novels August 19, 2010
Charles Heller (Annapolis, MD, USA)
Because of my own to-be-published memoir on the subject ("Out of Prague: A Memoir of Survival, Denial, and Triumph"), I try to read any and all books on this subject -- fiction and nonfiction. Some are good, some are fair, others are outstanding. Taking its place at or near the top of the latter group is "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay. It is a fictional account of a young girl's separation from her parents, following a real event: the round-up of thousands of French Jews and their children -- not by Germans, but by French police. Ms.de Rosnay teaches us about this shameful and little-known crime by skillfully interweaving two story lines -- those of Sarah, the Jewish girl who holds a terrible secret and Julia, an American journalist, who uncovers the secret. The story is powerful and compelling. At the same time, it is so terrifying that -- on many occasions -- I wanted to stop reading. But, I couldn't. I am grateful to St. Martin's Press, and its Griffin imprint, for publishing one of the finest books in this genre. Go out and buy this book. It will make you cry, but you will never forget it.
Really liked this book August 17, 2010
Christine
I really liked this story. I cannot attest to the facts, but the story itself was captivating and depressing, all at the same time. A really good read.
sarah's key August 14, 2010
C. Wells (ma, usa)
The condition of the book was excellent ... the story was compelling. It was hard to put down once you got into it. The ending may have been a bit contrived, but I was happy with it
 Tragic story which (somewhat understandably) lacked closure August 14, 2010
Berean Hunger
Set in France during WWII and paralleled in the present, the book follows a journalist as she researches how the French government (and civilians) followed German demands to round up Jews living in Paris to send to death camps. The story is well written, starkly riveting and heartbreaking, especially since it's based on true events. I finished it with a sad ache of emptiness, however. Even though a major theme is the main character's attempts to somehow make restitution, there is little hope or redemption in the story, and I couldn't help thinking that the author needs the hope and peace of Christ to be able to cope with the brutal sinfulness of humanity. Still, we can't forget history, or we're doomed to repeat it, and some stories are just too awful to have a neat sense of closure at the end.
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