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Sarah's Key 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Catalog: Book Release date: 2008-09-30 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 320 Ean: 9780312370848 Book Isbn: 0312370849  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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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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 Written on December 12, 2008 Summary: Best Historical Fiction of 2008! Sarah's Key is a wonderful historical fiction novel which intertwines events involving Sarah, a ten-year-old girl in 1942 Paris, to the life of Julia Jarmond, an American journalist, in 2002. This story centers around the holocaust roundup that took place in Paris during World War II, and includes events and surprising connections that will keep you spellbound. This book is a mezmerizing page-turner and one of the best historical fiction novels of 2008. Written on December 12, 2008 Summary: Historically Signficant This book definitely grabs the reader from page 1 as it tells the tale of a little known episode in French WWII history. The alternating points-of-view are fascinating. The modern day prospective lessens the suspense and for me, importance of the story. After about midway through the book the present time comes off as downright silly and goes downhill from there. I had trouble buying the present day narrator's seemingly sudden obsession with Sarah and she became more implausible as the story progressed. All in all, an engaging story and one that is historically significant and needed to be told. Written on December 12, 2008 Summary: Excellent Book Excellent Price... Everyone is Happy Sarah Key is a very compelling story. It is a great one to discuss at a book club, or with a close friend.I would recommend reading Sarah's Key, for it sheds some kind of light on one of the darkest parts of history! Written on December 12, 2008 Summary: Intriguing but clumsy-- worth a weekend of reading After the first few chapters into this book, I had to admit to myself that although it wasn't the most skillfully or subtly written novel I have read recently, I was hooked. This novel moves between a third-person narration of events surrounding a young French Jewish girl in July 1942, and a first person account of an American journalist in France investigating those events in the early 2000's. This oscillation is done well, the change done at the chapter breaks, and the two stories are interwoven in way that will keep you turning the pages. The clumsiness I found in awkward plot movement devices in which the reader is told things they need to know in a way that was obvious that we needed to know it. There was also an over-reliance on cliched or stock moments (some of the internment camp descriptions especially felt this way, but also some of the emotional moments between characters). In many ways this book called out for a good editing, a shaving of these moments to pare it down to its better writing. Those criticisms raised, I have to say I would still recommend it to anyone looking for a weekend read, or interested in this topic. I finished it quickly and enjoyed it very much, learning a little more about a topic I read widely on as a teenager, but haven't revisited in many years. The main characters are well drawn, and it pulls you in to both a personal emotional journey, and an historically based storyline. This would be a great book for a book club, especially with its strong main narrator voice of a middle aged woman grappling with life decisions, but also in raising the issues about World War II, the importance of remembering history, and how decisions we make in our lives can have ripple effects. Written on December 8, 2008 Summary: Loved this book!! After being very disappointed in two "bestsellers"..one..an "OPRAH PICK", I picked this book up at Target..and am I glad I did..the author did a very good job of weaving fact and fiction..I had no idea that the French rounded up Jews and sent them to camps in 1942..I was very surprised, yet fascinated with the subject matter..Hope Oprah reads this one...I give it an A plus.. Janet from Maryland |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2008-09-30 | 2008-09-08 | 2008-07-29 | 2008-09-19 | 2008-04-08 | 2007-09-11 |
| Media | Paperback | Paperback | Hardcover | Hardcover | Paperback | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 320 | 368 | 288 | 576 | 400 | 576 |
| Ean | 9780312370848 | 9780393333060 | 9780385340991 | 9780061768064 | 9780345495006 | 9780375842207 |
| Book Isbn | 0312370849 | 039333306X | 0385340990 | 0061768065 | 0345495004 | 0375842209 |
| Reading level | - | - | - | - | - | Young Adult |
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