Saturday, August 1, 2009

Sarah`s Key



I read Sarah`s Key in the month of July .Julia Jarmond, writer for an American magazine in France , investigates the Vel` d`Hiv roundup of Jews during WWII in Paris ,France , when she finds out that the apartment she and her unfaithful husband and her 11 year old daughter are going to move too was acquired by her husband`s family after a Jewish family who lived there was taken in the round up .The story moves back and forth between Julia and Sarah , who was the little girl who was part of the family that was taken during the roundup.
I liked the story because I have always been interested in stories from WWII but I thought that Julia`s story about her unfaithful husband and later her new romance was a bit sappy .It had too much of a romance story while the story about her investigation of Vel d` Hiv was very interesting .