Sarah's Key

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 front flap Download Sarah's Key – kino-fada.fr It should never be forgottenBy Sol TetelbaumReview Sarah s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Almost a hundred readers published their reviews on Tatiana de Rosnay s novel Sarah s Key Most of them rated the book in four or five stars, but some of them calling the novel mediocre showed a lower rating three stars It is necessary to admit that their opinions weren t unfounded and most critical comments were fair However, from my standpoint, despite the fair critical...I was intrigued by the plot for this book A young girl locks her brother in a cupboard at their apartment in Paris before the Police, at the behest of the Nazi s, take away her and her family They wait for several days in a detention center, in conditions like the Superdome, before being sent to camps in Southern France, and we wonder if she will retrieve her little brother before he dies or starves or hopefully, is rescued Unfortunately, another storyline involving a two dimensional American I was intrigued by the plot for this book A young girl locks her brother in a cupboard at their...I might have given this book higher marks if I hadn t just finished the infinitely superior The Book Thief But as it is I m feeling pretty generous with my 2 stars The subject matter was intriguing I didn t rea...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 ParisOn July 16 and 17, 1942, 13,152 Jews were arrested in Paris and the suburbs, deported and assassinated at Auschwitz In the V 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...spoilers Lots of spoilers Don t read this disclaimer This is a review of the book, Sarah s Key, and not the Holocaust I give the Holocaust negative infinity stars, if you were wondering Fuck you Sarah s Key, you manipulative sonofabitching asshole How dare you make me feel like this at Christmas Dead baby brother in a cupboard Really Gassing the parents at Auschwitz wasn t enough I don t give a goddamn what you throw at me for the rest of the story I WILL NOT CRY AFTER THAT BU spoilers Lots of spoilers Don t read this disclaimer This is a review of the book, Sarah s Key, and not the Holocaust I give the Holocaust negative infinity stars, if you were wondering Fuck you Sarah s Key, you manipulative sonofabitching asshole How dare you make me feel like this at Christmas Dead baby brother in a cupboard Really Gassing the parents at Auschwitz wasn t enough I don t give a goddamn what you throw at me for the rest of the story I WILL NOT CRY AFTER THAT BULLSHIT I know that s all you want and you re not going to get i...October 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 ...I finished Sarah s Key this morning and I have so many thoughts going through my head about it I loved the pacing of the story, how it switched between Sarah s story and Julia s story up until the point where the two merged I loved how the style of Sarah s story was completely different than the style of Julia s story I loved how both stories made me cry, even though I knew what was coming I loved how realistically the characters were portrayed Nobody was all good or all bad, just human w I finished Sarah s Key this morning and I have so many thoughts going through my head about it I loved the pacing of the story, how it switched between Sarah s story and Julia s story up until the point where the two merged I loved how the style of Sarah s story was completely different than the style of Julia s story I loved how both stories made me cry, even though I knew what was coming I loved how realistically the characters were portrayed Nobody was all good or all bad, just human with human frailties I loved the depictions of the small acts of conscience and kindness I had no idea about the roundups of Jews in France I did know that the Nazis tended to just send children who were too young to work straight to the gas chambers I think the author did a good job of illustrating why the French people seemed to forget what had happened and how the Holoca...I agree with Katie on this one I did not enjoy this book It tells two stories one, about a young French girl whose family is rounded up and taken away during the Holocaust, and the other about a modern day journalist who is tracking down her story Julia, the contemporary narrator, was self obsessed, clueless and downright annoying I couldn t stand her husband, or even her perfect little kid, for that matter It made it hard to root for them because they were just so unlikeable The premis I agree with Katie on this one I did not enjoy this book It tells two stories one, about a...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 Fren 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 d...3.5 stars This is a dual timeline historical fiction novel, about the arrests of Jewish families in France during WWII and their terrible experiences, focusing on the actual historic Vel d Hiv roundup in July 1942, and a modern journalist s investigation of that event and her search for some of the people involved The inside of the V lodrome d Hiver bicycle stadium, demolished in 1959In the 1942 timeline, in Paris a 10 year old girl is arrested with her Polish mother and father in the middle 3.5 stars This is a dual timeline hist...

• English
• 01 August 2018
Tatiana de Rosnay
• Hardcover
• 294 pages
• 0312370830
• Tatiana de Rosnay
• Sarah's Key