Sarah's Key - Rambling Readers

English language

ISBN:: 978-0-312-37083-1

(2 reviews)

Sarah's Key is a historical fiction novel by Franco-British author Tatiana de Rosnay, first published in French as Elle s'appelait Sarah in September 2006. Two main parallel plots are followed through the book. The first is that of ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski, a Jewish girl born in Paris, who is arrested with her parents during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup. Before they go, she locks her four-year-old brother in a cupboard, thinking the family should be back in a few hours. The second plot follows Julia Jarmond, an American journalist living in Paris, who is asked to write an article in honour of the 60th anniversary of the roundup. As of 2021, the novel has sold 11 million copies in 44 countries.

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crabbygirl reviewed Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Review of "Sarah's Key" on 'Goodreads'

1 star

been awhile since i read a book in one sitting - 'the giver' being the last
but this one was an easy read and, with a deadline looming, and i just pushed through: 8-11pm last night.
hmph. it was so-so. one parallel story was trite and too unnecessarily detailed with too much lateral character development - but that's what made it so easy to skim read. and the other parallel story had a tragic core that made you want to see through to its conclusion. 1/2way thru the novel, the 2 stories stop taking turns, and that's when the book got tedious.
and the ending was dumb. it's a serious subject: the mass rounding up of jewish children during WW1. why the need to make the 2 stories join with a romance?

Tamsin

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Oct. 8, 2012