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An edition of Sarah's Key (2006)

Sarah's Key

1st ed. (1)
  • 4.25 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 32 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 9 Have read

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)

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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
294

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Cover of: Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key
2011-10, St. Martin's Press
Hardcover in English - 1st St. Martin's gift ed. (1)
Cover of: La llave de Sarah
La llave de Sarah
2010, Suma de Letras
in Spanish
Cover of: Elle s'appelait Sarah
Elle s'appelait Sarah
2010, Audiolib
Audio book in French
Cover of: Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key
2010, St. Martin's Griffin
Paperback in English - 1st St. Martin's Griffin edition (1); Movie tie-in
Cover of: La llave de Sarah
La llave de Sarah
2009, Punto de Lectura
Cover of: La llave de Sarah
La llave de Sarah
2008, Punto de Lectura
in Spanish
Cover of: Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key
2007, St. Martin's Griffin
Paperback in English - 11th printing
Cover of: Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key
2007-06, St. Martin's Press
Hardcover in English - 1st ed. (1)
Cover of: Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key
2007, Thorndike Press
Hardcover in English - U.S. Large print ed. (1)
Cover of: Elle s'appelait Sarah
Elle s'appelait Sarah
2006, Héloïse d'Ormesson
in French

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New York, USA

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2007

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR9105.9.R66 S27 2007, PQ2678.O694

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
294 p. ;
Number of pages
294

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24832604M
Internet Archive
sarahskey00rosn
ISBN 10
0312370830
ISBN 13
9780312370831
LCCN
2007010080
OCLC/WorldCat
86166921, 938491737
Paperback Swap
0312370830
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0312370830
Google
6eJeAPrdo
Goodreads
556602

Work Description

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.
(source)

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The girl was the first to hear the loud pounding on the door. Her room was closest to the entrance of the apartment. At first, dazed with sleep, she thought it was her father, coming up from his hiding place in the cellar. He’d forgotten his keys, and was impatient because nobody had heard his first, timid knock.
added by Lisa. "first sentence"

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