

S'està carregant… Sarah's Key (2007)de Tatiana de Rosnay
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Historical Fiction (21) » 30 més Top Family Stories (43) Top Jewish Books (41) Top Five Books of 2013 (327) Top War Stories (22) Top French Books (12) Female Author (159) Holocaust (5) Top Five Books of 2016 (119) Five star books (337) Tour of Paris (12) Books about World War II (141) Books Read in 2010 (42) Great Audiobooks (45) Books Read in 2011 (17) Alphabetical Books (10) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Excellent book! You won't put it down. Difficult subject matter, but love this author's writing style. ( ![]() I thought this book was ok. The most interesting part of the story happened within the first 100 pages--Sarah's story. The rest was so-so. I don't feel like the other main character's story added anything. Instead, it detracted from it. Overall, I'm glad I read this book, but I don't think I would tell somebody that this is a "must read". This novel has two overlapping storylines, in alternating chapters (until near the end, when it drops to one perspective). The first is about a young Jewish girl who lives in Paris. It's 1942, and when French police come in the middle of the night collecting Jewish families on orders of the Germans, Sarah's terrified four-year-old brother hides in a secret cupboard in the wall of their bedroom. She locks him in and pockets the key, promising to come back when the police let them go. But of course, they never do let them go. Sarah ends up in a camp, eventually separated from her parents, suffering from hunger, deplorable conditions, and horrific sights. All the while desperate to escape and return to the apartment where her little brother is waiting in the dark. It's such a sad story. The other storyline is modern time, about an American-born woman Julia, who lives in Paris working as a journalist. She is writing an article for the anniversary recognizing the day over 10,000 Parisian Jews were taken from their homes, an event which most locals around her seem to want to forget. She has a hard time finding people who remember the day and will actually talk to her. Her research leads her to the names of Sarah's family, and then it turns out she has a personal connection to the apartment where the little boy was left in the cupboard. As the two stories continue to dovetail, Sarah trying to find out what happened to her brother, and Julia attempting to track down the remnant's of Sarah's family, there's also a lot about how Julia's marriage is slowly unraveling, and how her life is changed by her research into the events of sixty years ago. I thought I wasn't going to like this one, honestly- I had the impression it was over-hyped back in the day when it was all over the book blogs. Actually, it's a good read, very heartfelt, and I'm glad that the ending didn't have the final pat coincidence I thought I saw coming. It's been a long while since I read a Holocaust story. They're often hard for me to get through. This one was a fairly easy read and worth it. from the Dogear Diary One of my favorite books that talks about the Holocaust. This book brings me tears because of such a horrific time. I get fascinated with history and learning about ones life during that time intrigued me more Sometimes books are a way to tell a story that people want to hide because they are ashamed of history. Sarah's key is one of this books. As a granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor and lost family both from my maternal and parental side, I say thank you to Tatiana de Rosnay for writing something that people are afraid even to remember or talk. Vil' d'Hiv is not a subject that the French are proud to talk about it or even teach it to the next generations. Julia, the main character is writing an article about the subject, and she looks around. Through finding new information about the material she finds out things about her political family and her story intertwines with the story of Sarah. While I was reading this book, I remembered The Alice Network a book that had the same idea as a plot. You have the historical part of a true story, and you build the fictional part of the scheme by bringing it to the contemporary time. There should be more books like this because it is a way to teach events that people are not so keen about them and on the other hand we need to remember and never forget. Yes, it is my first book I read by Tatiana de Rosnay, but it isn't the last one. I want to thank her for taking the risk of writing about a subject that the French are not so proud.
"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 inspirat
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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