Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
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Book Reviews of Sarah's Key
Book Review: This has changed my life. A Powerful Book*
Summary: 5 Stars
I Bought this book with little knowledge of how intense of an impact it was going to have in my life. I've never encountered a story about what took place in France at the Velodrome d'Hiver on July 16th 1943 * Although the characters are all fictional; This well written story makes you feel as if you are actually there with them.
Through the eyes of 10 yr old Sarah her inner survival & resilience, along with Julia's Jarmond intensive search of what became of little Sarah fuel this mighty moving story.
This Book has made me a better person and this has changed my life. I now see the world differently and I am grateful to God to be alive, No matter the circumstance. I now remember those 4,000 children from the ages 2 through 12 that were murdered and taken from Veldrome d'Hiver. I an American girl with no ties to that horrible day, will remember them all always.
Book Review: A haunting, memorable book
Summary: 5 Stars
Although a work of fiction, Sarah's Key is based on the real events of the Paris roundup of Jewish families in the early morning of July 16, 1942 and their eventual deportations from France to certain death.
The most compelling and emotional parts of this book are in it's beginning, especially the disturbing conditions at the Vélodrome d'Hiver where the parents and children were interned before taking trains out of Paris. How they suffered such appalling conditions with little food, water and no sanitation. All under the watchful eyes of French policemen.
The author, Tatianna de Rosnay, knew this could not be a historical novel. She succeeded in making it more contemporary, linking the lives of a present day journalist and a young French girl living through the horror of the summer of 1942.
A haunting, memorable book.
Book Review: Sarah's Key Unlocks A Fateful Story
Summary: 5 Stars
SARAH'S KEY by Tatiana De Rosney is a well-written journey beginning with the horrific violations of the Nazis and cooperating French police in Paris in 1942 and the Vel' d Hiv roundup of thousands of Jewish families. Sarah's story is interwoven with that of Julia Jarmond, an American journalist living in Paris, who is assigned to write about this not spoken of atrocity. The fate of Sarah and eventually Julia is heart-wrenchingly sad.
The book is so upsetting, in parts, that I found myself only able to read 6 or 7 pages at a sitting. My only negative comment is that, at times, I thought the story a bit contrived; written to pull even more on my emotionally charged heartstrings.
SARAH'S KEY should be on everyone's must read list as much for the historic facts and insight it imparts, as for the complicated tale it weaves.
Book Review: Childs Survival in WWII
Summary: 5 Stars
I just finished Sarah's Key and it is a good thing that I was home on vacation when I picked it up yesterday. I had been putting off reading it because I am not too interested in reading books about war, but after the first few pages, Sarah and her brother's plight had caught me and I just could not put the book down. At midnight I had to quit but at first light I jumped out of bed and finished the last two chapters before breakfast. This book is a 10/10 and is going in my permanent collection. I will read this book many times and lend it to friends. It is more about secrets, lies, forgiveness, giving, forgiving and letting in the light of day than about a war. It is a story that is told many times, over many centuries, in many countries, but Ms. Rosnay has done an extraordinary job of the telling. This book will stick with me for a very long time.Book Review: Haunting
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked this book up at Target. It was in their "Bookmarked" rack and as soon as I read the back blurb I knew it was the kind of book I would enjoy. But enjoy is too tepid a word for the way the book made me feel. SARAH'S KEY is one of those rare books that touches you so deeply, you feel as if you are right there, sharing Sarah's pain, going through every excruciating experience with her. This was a very dark period in the world's history and it's shameful that France was part of that darkness. I can see why they wouldn't want to talk about this particular episode in their past. I'm grateful to de Rosnay for writing about it and impressed by her ability to make the story so emotionally compelling. I am so glad I bought this book and want to encourage others to buy it, too. You won't regret it. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.