Sarah's Key
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312370831 (0312370830)
ASIN: 0312370830
Publish date: 2007-06-12
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
War,
France,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Fiction,
Historical
Let me try to explain why I didn't like this book very much. I believe one of the sales quotes on the back of the book can help me communicate why. Keep in mind that this is, at least in part, a book about French complicity in the Holocaust:"Sarah's Key unlocks the star-crossed, heart-thumping story...
Heartbreaking.
4.09210121
Reporter Julia Jarmond is investigating the events of 1942, when French authorities rounded up the Jews of the cities and put them in concentration camps, an investigation that uncovers links to her husband's family. But how will her tale intersect with that of the title character, a 10 year old gi...
An American living in France investigates a small Jewish girl’s heartbreaking experience in the Velodrome d’Hiver roundup in 1940s Paris.Children. Barely two or three years old. Children who had died at the camp, in July and August 1942. Vel’d'Hiv’ children…I knew that I would no longer rest, no ...