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Sarah's key

By Tatiana De Rosnay

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Audio Book Review: Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Share

The audio book was narrated by Polly Stone, who did an excellent job. At times her French accent was a bit hard to understand but she was spot on with the reading. It was very enjoyable to listen to and not once did I find myself zoning out like so o ... (read full critics)

blogcritics published on Sun, 14 Aug 2011

Bookreporter.com - SARAH'S KEY by Tatiana de Rosnay

Sarah Starzynski, an exuberant 10-year-old girl who lives with her parents and younger brother Michel in Paris in the summer of 1942, could never have imagined what horrors her young eyes would see. During the Nazi occupation of France, raids on Jewi ... (read full critics)

bookreporter published on Sat, 6 Nov 2010

8 Reviews

I watched the film first and felt that it has eliminated and missed something important in the film. The things puzzled me and urged me to read the original fiction.
When I finished the book, I finally understand how sadness Sarah was, how heavy the history she bared.
History should never be forg ... (continue)

I watched the film first and felt that it has eliminated and missed something important in the film. The things puzzled me and urged me to read the original fiction.
When I finished the book, I finally understand how sadness Sarah was, how heavy the history she bared.
History should never be forgotten, because it's so close to our lives, which makes you as you, and me as me.
I like the way story goes. In the first half, Sarah's story and Julia's story progress in parallel and some little things linked between them. You'll know how Sarah feel with the things she's suffered, and see how Julia found the linkage between her and Sarah.
From Sarah's point of view, she don't understand why she as a Jew should be marked with yellow star, should be sent to the camp, should be force to leave their home. This part would let the readers thought deeper on the history and humanity.
The parallel part of Julia's tracing for Vel' d'Hiv' outlined the main part of the tragedy, and plant a seed of sadness for the coming progress.
After the climax part when Julia know that Sarah has come back to the apartment, it sounds like Sarah's part was over, but it doesn't. The rest half of the fiction is Julia work on to find out what comes next to Sarah, and this part was totally in Julia's view.
Julia's trace on Sarah's story in the film seems not so reasonable and confused me why it's so important to her. But in the fiction, there's the details, there's the emotion she bared, and there's the explanation she had to be.
I like the part describing that how William Rainsferd (Sarah's son) known the story of his mother, Sarah and her family's, and how William thought with that, also the part he meet the Tezac family (Julia's French in-laws). These details are touching, and with deeper emotion inside. The film omitted some of these touching scene.
As a conclusion, I'd like to say I love the book more than the film. However, I would still recommend people to watch the film, because bare some images in mind will make the story comes alive and enhance the reading interest.

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瑩 said on Jan 31, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

touching story, revealing a sister's love and also a mother's love toward her baby.

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HM Cheung said on Jan 2, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

This book captured my full attention right away. I was a bit disappointed with the last quarter, as it became VERY predictable.

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Karin Sloan said on Aug 11, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

I felt that the ending was actually very predictable, and the story should have ended more quickly. All in all, though, it was a very emotional story.

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ButYouGotMySoul said on Feb 19, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

It is an extremely sad story. I reduced one star simply because it is just way too sad, it is a story that's going to haunt me for the rest of my life. I start to check all those data and real pictures about the Holocaust, I cried, I can't convince myself to accept the truth and I can't find any way ... (continue)

It is an extremely sad story. I reduced one star simply because it is just way too sad, it is a story that's going to haunt me for the rest of my life. I start to check all those data and real pictures about the Holocaust, I cried, I can't convince myself to accept the truth and I can't find any way to let out my sadness especially after seeing those innocent babies/children/family pictures. I also can't find a way to forgive and of course I will never forget. How could it ever happen? How could people be this cruel? This is really just too sad and too devastating.

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sharlen said on Oct 8, 2010 | Add your feedback

I didn't think I was going to be able to finish this book after reading only the first couple chapters because it was so sad. I'm glad I made myself finish the bookt though, because it was an excellent story!

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Angela Dutton Vranish said on Aug 15, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback