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Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
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Label: St. Martin's Press
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: June 12, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Sales Rank: 142714
Studio: St. Martin's Press
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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.
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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- Fascinating story that keeps you riveted.I did not read this book as much as I devoured it over the course of two days. The back and forth between the two voices of the novel kept me turning the pages long after my bedtime. The story was interesting, and your heart just broke for Sarah and her family.
The book also shines a light on France's government involvement in Nazi Germany's "Final Solution." After finishing the novel I have been compelled to find more historical information on the Rafle du Vel d'Hiv.
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- Powerful, haunting storyThis story is a powerful, well written story than evokes tremendous emotion in the reader. The parallel story lines prevent the reader from putting the book down during the truly horrifying moments. Written in the first person, a writing style that enables the reader to more clearly envision the events, the story is cleverly crafted with just enough detail to allow the reader to empathize with Julia, the voice of the story as she desparately seeks out Sarah's story. This is by far the best book I have ... Read More
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- captivatingThis novel, intriguing from the very beginning, tells the story of the Vel' D'Hiv' -- one of the largest Nazi roundups of Jews, carried out by French soldiers. It intertwines the story of Sarah, a ten-year-old girl in Paris, 1942, and Julia, a forty-five-year-old American ex-pat living in Paris, 2002. Julia's job takes her to researching the Vel' D'Hiv', and she learns more than she bargained for, including her family's darkest secret. The whole novel has a melancholy tone -- Julia has her fair share ... Read More
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- Fascinating & well-written novel with a too-pat conclusionThis is the second of Tatiana de Rosnay's novels that I have read, and like the previous one La Mémoire des murs it revolves around a mystery associated with a Parisian apartment.
In this case, the Marais apartment once occupied by ten-year-old Sarah and her family until they are rounded up in an infamous "rafle" of Parisian Jews in July 1942 is about to become home to American-born Julia Jaramond. The property, which has long been the property of her French husband's family, is now vacant, ... Read More
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- An heartbreaking, yet hopeful, journey through a dark time"Sarah's Key" is heartbreaking tale of the personal individual costs felt by the victims of the Nazi Holocaust. The personal story of the titular character, Sarah Starczynski, during that awful time runs parallel with the current story of journalist Julia Jarmond, an expatriate living in the modern era France and assigned to research one of the more shameful incidents during the Vichy French collaboration with Hitler's Germany, the Vel' D'Hiv roundups in 1942.
The character of Sarah was ... Read More
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