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Sarah's Key

Tatiana de Rosnay

Why we're reading this: My Book Club chose this book. It is about a young Jewish girl in France and how her family was caught up …more
[close] My Book Club chose this book. It is about a young Jewish girl in France and how her family was caught up in the Holocaust and also an American woman in modern day, living in France researching France's role in the Holocaust.

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Jul 30, 2011 Lanica rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, reviewed, read-in-2011, historical-fiction

I was really enjoying the historical-fiction aspects of this book, but then the answers to the main questions were answered half way through and the book ran out of steam. Rather than keeping me hooked and dragging me through the second world war with her, the main character answered her question and then turned around and wondered off into the modern age...the story was interesting when it was about the girl living in WWII. Unfortunately, the author seemet to lose her about half way through the ...more

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Jun 17, 2010 Lioba rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites, own, mental-health, read-2010, death, religion, read-in-german, historical-fiction, holocaust

Breathtaking and heartbreaking story about a 10-year-old Jewish girl in 1942 Paris who tries to save her little brother from being arrested with the rest of the family by hiding him in a closet. As she and her parents get taken to a velodrome together with thousands of other Jews and during all that happens subsequently, she keeps planning to release and rescue him.

A parallel story takes place in 2002. Julia, a journalist, works on an article on the 60th anniversary of the herding in the "Vélodr ...more

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