Sarah's Key
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Tatiana de Rosnay
Now a major motion picture!From beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay come's her celebrated novel Sarah's Key.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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More Details:
Author
Tatiana de Rosnay
Pages
304
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published Date
2007-06-12
ISBN
1429985216 9781429985215
Ratings
Google: 4
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"A story about a young girl and her family caught in the French round-up of Jews in the summer of 1943. "
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Merry
"Very sad 😢 😢"
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Dawn
"I read this in four hours and stopped only once because I was crying so hard that I couldn't see. This was beautiful and heartbreaking. "
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Cheryl J. White
"You’ll never forget this novel #gutpunch "
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Kayla Larrison
"BEAUTIFUL STORY. "
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Velvett
"293 pages"
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Sarah Womack
"Very sad to read "
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Amanda Wilcox
"Excellent book!"
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Brigitte Doherty
"Or, _Flowers in Anne Frank's Attic_.<br/><br/>The Holocaust gets the Oprah treatment. Julia, a tiresome, self-involved American expat discovers her Parisian in-laws have a nasty secret connected to the fab apartment they coincidentally acquired right after a notorious 1942 roundup of French Jews. Told in alternating chapters by Julia and in flashbacks by the war victim she is researching, this reminds me of the similarly structured _Julie and Julia_: each pairs an intriguing historical incident with hackneyed domestic soap opera. The roundup story is deeply moving, Julia's travails with her boorish French husband and his snotty family decidedly less so. French people do not come off well here; although the author is partly French herself she depicts most of her compatriots with the same clownish stereotypes you would expect from a Steve Martin movie.<br/><br/>Written to appeal primarily to those who can only muster interest in tragedies with a character like themselves shoehorned in."
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Lesley Williams
"This book was beautiful and sad, it was an amazing read."
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Shelby
