Willa Rose:
I have to say this is my #1 favourite book ever. I’ve read it four times and will probably read it again. I felt every emotion while reading it. I’ve bought it for my loved ones too. Love this book.
Canada on Jan 31, 2024
Amazon Customer:
I actually did end up going to Auschwitz after reading this!
India on Aug 21, 2021
J. Manning:
I'd already watched the film so was prepared for the horror of Vel d'Hiv - a truly shameful part of France's history in WW2 which was hushed up until Chirac exposed France's role many years later. The war-time story alternating and linking up with the modern-day story-line has the reader gripped from beginning to end. This is a 5-star book.
France on Feb 12, 2020
Yackqueen:
A very moving book. A little predictable but it gave me a history of something I never knew about. A shameful secret from a war torn France that the world needs to remember. The author tells the story in a very readable engrossing way. I am very glad I downloaded the sample as I could not stop before I knew Sarah’s story. A page turner that took only two days to read. Totally recommend the book.
Australia on Aug 08, 2018
Diana Faillace Von Behren:
In her novel, "Sarah's Key," Tatiana de Rosnay works to keep the atrocity of the Holocaust alive, known and unforgotten by ensuring that the modern reader fully understands the long-term effect of the Velodrome D'Hiver roundup of Jewish citizens that occurred in Paris in the summer of 1942. With knowledge comes regret and perhaps the ability to ascertain that such an event never happens again in the history of humanity. While the novel successfully reminds its readers that the past does not always marry well with the present--the sadness of old ghosts permeates and weakens pillars of hope and the right to happiness--main character Julia's personal quagmire--her unexpected pregnancy, her husband's failure to age gracefully and her anger with regard to what she perceives as the ambivalence of the French people as a whole--trivializes the impact of Sarah's ultimate decision to let the past win with an improbable ending that seems more an afterthought than an actual foregone conclusion.
In order to underline the effect of the past on the present, the story is told from alternating perspectives that are relayed along with their 2002 impact as they are...
United States on Mar 11, 2012
Regina Niesen:
I thought I knew pretty much about WW2 being that my husband and I both have a passion for learning about this time in history. I was shocked learning about the roundup in France. Shocking not only that it was the French police carrying out orders from the Nazi regime but that they took it even further and rounded up many more children than what was ordered from above. I cannot even write about this story from an unemotional standpoint because of the true events it explores and because it is all so horrific.
To point out a few literary standouts, the first I noticed was the parallel between Sarah's and Julia's personality. They both were being discriminated against. Sarah because she was a Jew and Julia because she was an American. Sarah was alway's asking what is wrong with being a Jew? Why were Jews treated so differently? Could you spot a Jew by their looks? Where they really that different? Julia was constantly the butt of her husband's "American" jokes. People made quick judgements of her because she was an American. Her French friends spoke to her in English even though she had lived in France for most of her life. People made comments to her saying...
United States on Sep 30, 2011
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| Total Reviews | 82 reviews | 226 reviews | 78 reviews |
| Best Sellers Rank | #504 in 20th Century Historical Fiction #1,263 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction #2,653 in Literary Fiction | #1,242 in City Life Fiction #26,881 in Contemporary Women Fiction#136,607 in Contemporary Romance | #718 in French Literature #25,470 in Contemporary Women Fiction #130,565 in Contemporary Romance |
| Literary Fiction (Books) | Literary Fiction | ||
| ISBN-10 | 0312370849 | 1477820280 | |
| Lexile measure | HL610L | ||
| ISBN-13 | 978-0312370848 | 978-1477820285 | |
| Item Weight | 9.8 ounces | 10.4 ounces | |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition | Amazon Crossing | |
| Language | English | English | |
| Paperback | 295 pages | 288 pages | |
| Dimensions | 5.5 x 0.85 x 8.25 inches | 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches | |
| Women's Domestic Life Fiction | Women's Domestic Life Fiction | ||
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