Book : Sarahs Key - de Rosnay, Tatiana

-Titulo Original : Sarahs Key

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St. Martins Press

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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel dHiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the familys apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris, May 2002: On Vel dHivs 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in Frances past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girls ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel dHiv, to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarahs past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. De Rosnays U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Velodrome dHiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tezac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vel dHiv roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrands family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers-especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive-the more she uncovers about Bertrands family, about France and, finally, herself. Already translated into 15 languages, the novel is De Rosnays 10th (but her first written in English, her first language). It beautifully conveys Julias conflicting loyalties, and makes Sarahs trials so riveting, her innocence so absorbing, that the book is hard to put down. (July) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review “This is a remarkable historical novel, a book which brings to light a disturbing and deliberately hidden aspect of French behavior towards Jews during World War II. Like Sophies Choice, its a book that impresses itself upon ones heart and soul forever.” Naomi Ragen, author of The Saturday Wife and The Covenant“Sarahs Key unlocks the star crossed, heart thumping story of an American journalist in Paris and the 60-year-old secret that could destroy her marriage. This book will stay on your mind long after its back on the shelf.” Risa Miller, author of Welcome to Heavenly Heights About the Author Tatiana de Rosnay is the author of over ten novels, including the New York Times bestseller Sarahs Key, an international sensation with over 11 million copies in 44 countries worldwide. Together with Dan Brown, Stephenie Meyer, and Stieg Larsson, she has been named one of the top ten fiction writers in Europe. De Rosnay lives in Paris. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter One Paris, July 1942 The girl was the first to hear the loud pounding on the door. Her room was closest to the entrance of the apartment. At first, dazed with sleep, she thought it was her father, coming up from his hiding place in the cellar. He’d forgotten his keys, and was impatient because nobody had heard his first, timid knock. But then came the voices, strong and brutal in the silence of the night. Nothing to do with her father. “Police! Open up! Now!” The pounding took up again, l