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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' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's
… More »Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's 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 girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's 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.
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Add a SummaryA Jewish girl in Paris hides her little brother in the closet and locks it when the Gestapo comes for them, promising that she will come back for him...she escapes from the concentration camp and returns, but he has died. There is a subplot about the family who got the apartment afterwards and their descendants. and one of the wives, who is a journalist and searches the story of the little girl, and finds out the first story.
Haunting story of children caught in the holicaust that was carried out in Paris by the French themselves, the denial by the next generation and the discovery of the story of one doomed family by an American expat married into a French family. Her pursuit of the story which took place in her husband's family home tears the family and her marriage apart.
On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid. 293p.
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Add a NoticeCoarse Language: Very mild occasional course language
Other: This is definitely a very mature novel. I would not recommend it for those under at least 12 years of age. It addresses some very poignant topics.(Family Separation, Death, Suicide, War (the Holocaust), Abortion, Relationships ect) It is an amazing book, it will change the way that you see things and give you a lot of perspective on what the Holocaust was really like.
Frightening or Intense Scenes: The 1942 parts.
Violence: The 1942 parts are very violent.
Coarse Language: Every good book has a few swears!
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Add a Quote“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” -George Washington
I realized I could not longer bear this alone. I felt isolated, broken. (William (288)
I don't want to know. (William 239)
My world felt hollow, empty. (Julia 242)
She did not bow her head in shame. She stood straight, her chin high. She wiped away the tears. (Sarah 58)
Nothing would ever be the same again. (57)
No respect for the past. (266)
Sometimes it's better not to know. (127)
The truth is harder than ignorance.(124)
Not one day has gone by without me thinking of you. (Sarah 259)
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Add a CommentJust finished this book today. It was a real page turner. I enjoyed how it was two stories intertwining into a mystery. The true history was enlightening and the fiction of the characters were entriguing. I often cried during the story.
This is a great book to read if you want to get a little insight of what the Vel D'hiv roundup must have felt like such as in Sarah's experiences in the Velodrome. What made this book enjoyable for me was the alternating chapters between Sarah's life and Julia's life. It made the waiting to read both stories much more suspenseful!
Great book! I couldn't put it down. Keep tissues handy!!
Heartbreaking story. Not an easy read...
Well written but a heartbreaking story.
A very good read. I enjoyed this book. I would recommend this book for all to read.
Great read! Could not put it down. A must read.
I knew very little about the events that took place in 1942, about the round up and who actually helped. It was very graphic and extremelly tragic to read although I am thankful for having this new knowledge and look at the modern day Jews with a great deal of empathy. Will people ever be equal? Today, we can still ask this question. I hope..... one day we will not......
One of the better books I have ever read. Moving and historically eye-opening, this book will not be easy to forget. I highly recommend to any reader, especially those interested in the atrocities surrounding war-torn Europe of the 1940s.
I wanted to like this more than I did. I was unaware of the homegrown French atrocity of the Vel d'Hiv, and I'm grateful for the author for the chance to learn more about it. Sarah's story was well-conceived. But de Rosnay just isn't a very good writer, at least not in English. The prose, especially in the modern sections, is flat, pedestrian. An example: "What had happened to the fresh-faced belle from Boston, Mass.? The woman who stared back at me was at that dreaded age between forty-five and fifty, that no-man's-land of sag, oncoming wrinkle, and stealthy approach of menopause." I wish a more talented author had taken up the material.