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Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay


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Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay

 
Description: ISBN 0312370830 / Author: Tatiana de Rosnay / Genre: Fiction / Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc. / Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten ... more
Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay ... year-old girl, is 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 re-evaluate 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.

Newest Review: ... also want to take Sarah and the rest of the family away as well. Thinking that they will be returning to the apartment in a ... more

 ... few days, Sarah hides her younger brother away in a secret closet and locks him in with the promise that she will come back for him. But, taken first to the local stadium in a bus full of fellow Jewish families then to a holding camp for Jewish prisoners, it soon becomes apparent that Sarah has made a fatal error in judgement. Years later, a journalist is researching a story about this dark day in French history when she finds links to her own family history. Suddenly, amidst personal turmoil and facing a crisis in ...more

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Premium Review Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay: A look at a forgotten snapshot of history from the second wo ... (646 words)
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I picked this up after a friend reccommended it to my online bookgroup and an author chat was arranged with her for later this month sometime. I had only a brief idea of what it was about but what I did know intrigued me enough to make me want to read more... SARAH'S KEY is set during the second world war, in Paris, during the time of German Occupation. Ten year old Sarah lives with her younger brother, her mum and her dad in a small french apartment. Sarah and her family are Jewish. Sarah doesn't understand how this makes her different from everybody else but knows it means she has to wear a yellow star on her clothes when she has to go to ...  Read the complete review

 

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