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S'està carregant… Sarah's Key (2007)de Tatiana de Rosnay
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Historical Fiction (22) » 33 més French Books (6) Top Five Books of 2013 (328) Best Family Stories (53) Female Author (218) Jewish Books (47) Holocaust (5) Top Five Books of 2016 (119) Best War Stories (22) Five star books (226) Books about World War II (192) Books Read in 2010 (91) Great Audiobooks (50) Books Read in 2011 (21) Alphabetical Books (13) Books Set in France (10) World War II Novels (14) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. What a wonderful book! I read it in two days because I couldn't put it down. A fascinating combination of mystery, history and contemporary characters. I also loved the American in Paris theme that was underneath and the growth of Julia from self-conscious to confidant was wonderfully enriching to read. ( ![]() Nothing that I write will do this book justice. I couldn't put this book down until I was finished with it. Once I was finished, I was sorry that it was over. I don't know what I'm going to read next, but it will pale in comparison. I admit that I have a passion for books about World War II and the Holocaust. Since I saw (and read) Diary of Anne Frank at age 13 in 1959, I have read everything I could get my hands on. This book is as good as anything else of have ever read about the era. The author does a masterful job of entwining the stories of Sarah in 1942 and Julia in 2002. I will recommend this book to everyone I know who likes to read. For the most part, I enjoyed the book. I was much more engaged in the story of Sarah and my enjoyment definitely waned once Julia's portion took over fully. The second half of the book was too predictable and I was more than ready for it to end. Sarah’s Key employs a dual timeline narrative of two related stories. The first is focused on a young Jewish girl, Sarah, whose family is part of the 1942 Vel' d'Hiv round-up by French police during WWII. The second story revolves around Julia, an American journalist living in France, assigned to write an article to commemorate its 60th anniversary. Julia discovers her in-laws are personally connected to Sarah’s story but have kept it secret. She becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to the Jewish family, and in the process, finds her life permanently changed. First, the positives. During Nazi-occupied France, the French police became complicit in persecution of the Jewish people. Many may not be aware of this dark episode in French history. Sarah’s story brings it to life through the eyes of a ten-year-old child in a vivid and heartbreaking manner. Unfortunately, this section of the book only lasts to about the half-way point. On the negative side, Julia’s story was much less compelling, but seemed to be the major focus. From the half-way point to the end, the book is filled with melodrama. The author’s puppet strings were often obvious, with some characters (such as Julia’s daughter Zoë) used in rather intrusive ways to move the plot forward. Much of the last half was predictable and anticlimactic. Overall, it was a mixed bag. The first half was captivating and last half sub-par. The reader of the audiobook did a commendable job with the French pronunciation and the rendering of many male and female roles. 172-1
"Tatiana de Rosnay offers a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround the painful episode in that country's history. De 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." Publishers Weekly (starred review) This is without a doubt the best book I've ever read. I was actually reading it during finals today, and I reached the saddest part in the book and began to cry. This book touched me and made me think like no other book ever has. Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsBvT (0548) Té l'adaptacióHa inspiratTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiants
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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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