Displaying 1 of 1 2007 Format: Book Author: Rosnay, Tatiana de, 1961- Title: Sarah's key / Tatiana de Rosnay. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007. Description: 294 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Jews -- France -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Anniversaries, etc. -- Fiction. Americans -- France -- Fiction. Women authors -- Fiction. Family secrets -- Fiction. France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction. Paris (France) -- Fiction. Web Site: Publisher description Dickinson Area Public Library Contributor biographical information Dickinson Area Public Library Publisher description Velva School - Public Library Contributor biographical information Velva School - Public Library Sample text Velva School - Public Library Publisher description Grafton Elementary School Library Contributor biographical information Grafton Elementary School Library Sample text Grafton Elementary School Library Publisher description Wishek School - City Library Contributor biographical information Wishek School - City Library Sample text Wishek School - City Library Publisher description Northwood City Library Contributor biographical information Northwood City Library Sample text Northwood City Library Publisher description Dickinson Trinity High School Library Contributor biographical information Dickinson Trinity High School Library Sample text Dickinson Trinity High School Library Publisher description Divide County Elementary School - Public Library Contributor biographical information Divide County Elementary School - Public Library Sample text Divide County Elementary School - Public Library Publisher description Carrington City Library Contributor biographical information Carrington City Library Sample text Carrington City Library LCCN: 2007010080 * 2006034536 ISBN: 9780312370831 0312370830 OCLC: 86166921 System Availability: 7 # System items in: 6 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Large Cover Image Trade Reviews Library Journal ReviewPivotal to this novel is the key in ten-year-old Sarah's pocket. It opens the cupboard in which she has hidden her younger brother from the French police, who are rounding up Jews in Paris. It is July 16, 1942, and Sarah, along with her parents and hundreds more people, are brought to the stadium Velodrome d'Hiver, where they spend several days without food or water before being sent to French camps en route to Auschwitz. Arriving at the camp Beaune-la-Rolande, Sarah is separated from her parents and manages to escape. Nearby farmers not only protect but eventually adopt her. In alternating chapters, we read of American-born journalist Julia Jarmond, who's working on a magazine story about the "Vel'd'Hiv" roundup on its 60th anniversary. Because the grandparents of Julia's husband moved into the apartment once owned by Sarah's family, we learn what Sarah discovers when she finally returns ten years later with the key-knowledge so traumatic that it changes Julia's life forever. This debut by French-born de Rosnay has been translated into 15 languages and will surely be an international best seller. Masterly and compelling, it is not something that readers will quickly forget. Highly recommended.-Lisa Rohrbaugh, East Palestine Memorial P.L., OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Publishers Weekly ReviewDe Rosnay's U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Velodrome d'Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tezac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv' roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand's family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers-especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive-the more she uncovers about Bertrand's family, about France and, finally, herself. Already translated into 15 languages, the novel is De Rosnay's 10th (but her first written in English, her first language). It beautifully conveys Julia's conflicting loyalties, and makes Sarah's trials so riveting, her innocence so absorbing, that the book is hard to put down. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
