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Sarah's Key |  | Author: Tatiana de Rosnay
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Rating:  559 reviews
Sales Rank: 75
Media: Paperback
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 0312370849
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780312370848
ASIN: 0312370849
Publication Date: September 30, 2008
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Product Description
A New York Times bestseller. 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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 Wow! Makes me wish... September 9, 2010
Kim Stef
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This books makes me wish I taught older kids - ones old enough to read this book. My students are around 9 so Sarah's Key would be too much, but I hope that when they do get to high school that they have an English teacher or a History teacher who assigns this book so that more American kids can learn about this sad chapter in history and that they might learn a little more appreciation for just how good they have it!
As a mother, I can't imagine having my children ripped from my very grasp. This book gave me nightmares (really - some bad person was grabbing kids and my son was one of them - shivers!!!) but I still couldn't put it down.
This has changed my life. A Powerful Book* September 8, 2010
The Secret
I Bought this book with little knowledge of how intense of an impact it was going to have in my life. I've never encountered a story about what took place in France at the Velodrome d'Hiver on July 16th 1943 * Although the characters are all fictional; This well written story makes you feel as if you are actually there with them.
Through the eyes of 10 yr old Sarah her inner survival & resilience, along with Julia's Jarmond intensive search of what became of little Sarah fuel this mighty moving story.
This Book has made me a better person and this has changed my life. I now see the world differently and I am grateful to God to be alive, No matter the circumstance. I now remember those 4,000 children from the ages 2 through 12 that were murdered and taken from Veldrome d'Hiver. I an American girl with no ties to that horrible day, will remember them all always.
gave me goosebumps September 7, 2010
Katie K. (Boston, MA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
WWII. So many stories, so little time. But while most of them focus on the Nazis and their treatment of the Jewish people, "Sarah's Key" is about the Velodrome d'Hiver, the round-up of the Jews not by the Nazis, but by the French police. Actual French gendarmes rounding up their own countrymen to send them to Auschwitz. It's horrifying, heart-wrenching, terrible.
This novel is split at first between Sarah's point of view in 1942 and Julia Jarmond's point of view in 2002, a journalist writing about the round-up in Paris sixty years later. Reading Sarah's story, I was biting my nails, nervous and horrified at her experience when the police came, and in the camps. She was 10 years old. 10. When it was Julia's time to speak, I practically skimmed her story to get back to Sarah's. They eventually merge in the middle and it becomes Julia's voice for the rest of the book, and I have to admit, I was a tad disappointed to no longer hear from Sarah.
The way the two characters are connected is surprising and terrible. Everything that happened to the Jews in WWII was surprising and terrible, but this twist in the story, what Sarah found when she returned to Paris and the connection to Julia and her family is emotionally disturbing. The author holds back the secret for as long as possible before it's necessary for her to reveal it. She definitely knows how to keep the reader reading!
I had goosebumps when I finished reading the book. It's a good ending. I must say I wasn't a huge fan of Julia because she could get a bit over-emotional at times, but the ending wraps it all up nicely and makes up for that. The chapters are short and quick and help with the pace of the book. I do wish that we could have heard from Sarah a bit longer...
It's hard reading a book about so many people suffering. But it's a way of letting them know that you remember and will never forget. WWII was a devastating time for the entire world, and it's hard to believe that people could do such awful things to fellow humans. Even though it was before my time, I read those stories so that I will remember.
A very good read about a subject I did not know about September 7, 2010
mimi (North Haven, CT United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sarah's Key deals with a shocking part of French history and the Holicost. The french police were responsible for rounding up Jews and sending them to the camps. It is a part of history that I did not know anything about and this novel deals with it in a facinating manner. I really could not put it down.
Fascinating book September 5, 2010
Bobbi
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fascinating book. I could not put it down. There are several suspense filled happenings. You are just as involved in the search for Sarah as the author. In the face of horror, a little girl preservered. This is an easy read of a deep subject. Excellent book, a must read.
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