chandraisenberg 's review for:

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

5.0

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Sarah's Key is a novel about a Jewish, Parisian family enmeshed in the 1942 Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv. At the same time, there is a subplot, taking place sixty years later about a journalist, Julia Jarmond, who is researching the Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv and slowly piecing together Sarah's story. Apparently, this historical event as well as the shameful involvement of the French police, train and bus systems is not widely known in France and is often swept under the rug. This was a seriously moving book about an extraordinary young girl and how the trials and tribulations she underwent left one woman, so removed from the time, place and events, overwrought with sadness and, ultimately, changed forever.