She expects they will soon be released and she can hurry back to free him. She isn’t sure what is happening as the police raid begins, and has little idea that there are people there who don’t like Jews at all, nonetheless, she hides her little brother in a secret small closet and hides the key in her clothing. One of them is Sarah Starzynski, a 10 year old girl, the Sarah of the novel’s title. Julia had never heard of this event and began to do her research, however, it is rather astonished that most Parisians at least claim to know virtually nothing about this historic event.Īfter a short chapter explaining the above, the novel shifts to 1942 and we are introduced to a family of Jews in this area who are arrested and taken away that day. However, they ordered the French police to do the rounding up. The Nazis had occupied Paris, and ordered that Jews of a certain area be rounded up to be taken away. It was the 60th anniversary of the horrible “Vel’ d’Hiv”. She is assigned to write an historical account of an event which happened 60 years ago, in 1942. Julia Jarmond, an American woman married to a Parisian, is a news reporter for an English language newspaper primarily for Americans in Paris. This brilliant and gripping novel is set in 2002, primarily in Paris. Book review - By De Rosnay, Tatiana – SARAH’S KEY Reviews of Nobel Prize winner
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