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Sarah's Key (novel) - Wikiwand. Sarah's Key is a historical fiction novel by Franco-British author Tatiana de Rosnay, first published in French as Elle s'appelait Sarah in September 2006. Two main parallel plots are followed through the book.

Sep 01, 2006 · Sarah's Key is the poignant story of two families, forever linked and haunted by one of the darkest days in France's past. In this emotionally intense, page-turning novel, Tatiana de Rosnay reveals the guilt brought on by long-buried secrets and the damage that the truth can inflict when they finally come unravelled.

Sarah’s Key is a novel told from multiple perspectives and points in time. At the outset of the novel, there are two narratives occurring: one in 1942, and the other in 2002. In 1942, Sarah’s family is taken, along with a host of other Jewish families, in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup by the French police. Before they leave their home, Sarah hides her little brother, Michel, in a secret cupboard …

59 Metascore. In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942. Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot. Votes: 16,999 | Gross: $7.69M.

Sarah's Key describes the roundup of the Jews of Paris in 1942 at the orders of the occupying Nazis. Many French citizens did what they could to help the victims, while others cooperated in the roundup. Whole families were taken away by regular French police and …

Sarah’s Key Summary. Sarah’s Key tells the intertwined stories of Sarah Starzynski, a ten-year-old Jewish girl living in Paris during World War Two, and Julia Jarmond, a forty-five-year-old American-born journalist living in Paris in 2002. For the first third of the novel, Sarah’s and Julia’s stories are intertwined, while the remainder of the book focuses on Julia’s story.

The central event of Sarah’s Key is the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, which was a mass arrest of Parisian Jews conducted by the French police on July 16, 1942. The interwoven plots of the novel track the lives of Sarah Starzynski , a ten-tear-old arrested with her parents in that roundup, and Julia Jarmond , an American expat working as a journalist in Paris in 2002.