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| Title | : | Sarah's Key |
| Author | : | Tatiana de Rosnay |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 294 pages |
| Published | : | June 2007 by St. Martins Press (first published September 2006) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction |
Tatiana de Rosnay
Hardcover | Pages: 294 pages Rating: 4.16 | 405334 Users | 28668 Reviews
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Paris, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. but before the police come to take them, Sarah locks her younger brother, Michel, in their favorite hiding place, a cupboard in the family's apartment. She keeps the key, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's sixtieth anniversary, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist, is asked by her Paris-based American magazine to write an article about this black day in France's past. Julia has lived in Paris for nearly twenty-five years, married a Frenchman, and she is shocked both by her ignorance about the event and the silence that still surrounds it. In the course of her investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from the terrible days spent shut in at 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.
Writing about the fate of her country with a pitiless clarity, Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and denial surrounding this painful episode in French history.
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Mention Books Supposing Sarah's Key
| Original Title: | Elle s'appelait Sarah |
| ISBN: | 0312370830 (ISBN13: 9780312370831) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312370831 |
| Characters: | Julia Jarmond, Sarah Starzynski, Zoë Tézac, Bertrand Tézac, Michel Starzynski, Wladyslaw Starzynski, Rywka Starzynski, William Rainsferd, Edouard Tézac, Jules Dufaure, Genevieve Dufaure |
| Setting: | Paris,1942(France) Paris,2002(France) |
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Ratings: 4.16 From 405334 Users | 28668 ReviewsCommentary About Books Sarah's Key
Two horrible situations form the premise of this novel. The first is the factual story of the French roundup of the Jews during World War II, which took place in Paris under the auspices of the French Police. It was the French Police, not the Nazis, who dragged French Jews from their homes, separated parents from children, and sent them on to their deaths, all of which was witnessed by French citizens who did little to stop these horrific events. Because so few people are aware of this chapterOctober 2009: re-reading this book again for another book club. I hope I like it better than the 1st time but so far I'm not seeing it. Why would she use a word like "ingurgitating" when you can say "ate"?? That kind of writing irritates me a lot. The true story is heartbreaking, and very interesting, but her writing just doesn't impress me as expressing the true horrors experienced by the deported Jews, or any real feeling for Julia's anger at her husband disdainful treatment of her. Spring
An incredible journey of the Jews in occupied France, especially Paris. ,17,000 children were hunted down and arrested by their neighbors., frenchmen. If we thought hurricane Katrina was bad imagine all those people and more living in fear, starvation and thirst. There were no bathroom facilities. There was suicide despair and death.Sarah locked her brother in a secret closet. She has the key.She escapes imprisonment and goes back for her brother. He has promised not to leave the closet.A
I wasnt sure how the back and forth chapters between one girl in 1942 and a different woman in 2002 were going to work for me, but this story is so well told.I thought Id be interested in the 1942 story but wasnt sure how much Id become involved with the 2002 story, but much to my relief I enjoyed both stories, although I did think Sarahs 1942 story was slightly stronger than Julias 2002 story. However, I do think my favorite character might be Zoe from the 2002 story.Reading this was chilling,
Two horrible situations form the premise of this novel. The first is the factual story of the French roundup of the Jews during World War II, which took place in Paris under the auspices of the French Police. It was the French Police, not the Nazis, who dragged French Jews from their homes, separated parents from children, and sent them on to their deaths, all of which was witnessed by French citizens who did little to stop these horrific events. Because so few people are aware of this chapter
This story could only have been written by a French person because anyone else could, and possibly would, be seen as casting stones. Fortunately, Tatiana de Rosnay is a French citizen and her bravery is outstanding as she brings to light the heartbreaking historical story that runs underneath the fictional story like a dark, terrifying catacomb below the streets of Paris. On July 16 and 17, 1942, 13,152 Jews were arrested in Paris and the suburbs, deported and assassinated at Auschwitz. In the
3 1/2 starsThis author grew up in France and was never taught at school about the French complicity in rounding up Jews for the Nazis. When she discovered information about the Vel' D'Hiv' roundup, she knew she had to write about it. The book is her tribute to the 4,000 children who were victims of that roundup. I cried for these little people. They were robbed of their chance at life before it ever really got started. Bad enough that they were killed, but before that, they were left in the
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