Sarah's Key
'I'll come back for you later. I promise.'
'I'll come back for you later. I promise.'
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780719524523 (0719524520)
ASIN: 0719524520
Publish date: 2008-02-07
Publisher: John Murray
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
War,
France,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Historical
This was a very moving, interesting story. It leaves you with a bit of a heavy heart but it's well worth reading.It tells 2 stories simultaneously, from different time periods, that are connected through tragic events. I really enjoyed this book.
i found sarah's key to be a painful book. i had never heard about the French police round up of the country's Jews and the Vel' d'Hiv'. i couldn't stop thinking about the boy left in the cupboard, absolutely could NOT wrap my mind around the implications of that, or how the characters in the book ...
Usch - terrible! OK the only thing positive I can say is that the info you learn about the Vel' d'Hiv, is, like so much other history covered up. "no, we didn't do that!" A very common sentence in history. The story about Sarah who lived through this is moving and interesting. However it is interwov...
Log in with Facebook 
