Tatiana de Rosnay

Paris, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. but before the police come to take them, Sarah locks her younger brother, Michel, in their favorite hiding place, a cupboard in the family's apartment. She keeps the key, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.

Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's sixtieth anniversary, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist, is asked by her Paris-based American magazine to write an article about this black day in France's past. Julia has lived in Paris for nearly twenty-five years, married a Frenchman, and she is shocked both by her ignorance about the event and the silence that still surrounds it. In the course of her investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from the terrible days spent shut in at 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.

Writing about the fate of her country with a pitiless clarity, Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and denial surrounding this painful episode in French history.
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Sarah's Key

When traumatic memories about a disturbing event from a childhood summer holiday cause his sister to suffer a debilitating car accident, Antoine befriends a street-wise mortician who helps him to manage painful family truths. By the best-selling author of Sarah's Key. 250,000 first printing.

A Secret Kept

Als een Amerikaanse journaliste onderzoek doet naar de jodenvervolging in Frankrijk, stuit ze op een geheim van haar schoonfamilie.

Haar naam was Sarah

The first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, set against a Paris backdrop, fraught with revelations, and resolutions. "An absorbing tale of family secrets from the author of Sarah's Key." - People magazine "Hypnotic, passionate, ominous and tender—unforgettable.” —Jenna Blum, New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Those Who Save Us Linden Malegarde has come home to Paris from the United States. It has been years since the whole family was all together. Now the Malegarde family is gathering for Paul, Linden’s father’s 70th birthday. Each member of the Malegarde family is on edge, holding their breath, afraid one wrong move will shatter their delicate harmony. Paul, the quiet patriarch, an internationally-renowned arborist obsessed with his trees and little else, has always had an uneasy relationship with his son. Lauren, his American wife, is determined that the weekend celebration will be a success. Tilia, Linden’s blunt older sister, projects an air of false fulfillment. And Linden himself, the youngest, uncomfortable in his own skin, never quite at home no matter where he lives—an American in France and a Frenchman in the U.S.—still fears that, despite his hard-won success as a celebrated photographer, he will always be a disappointment to his parents. Their hidden fears and secrets slowly unravel as the City of Light undergoes a stunning natural disaster, and the Seine bursts its banks and floods the city. All members of the family will have to fight to keep their unity against tragic circumstances. In this profound and intense novel of love and redemption, de Rosnay demonstrates all of her writer’s skills both as an incredible storyteller but also as a soul seeker.

A Novel

The Rain Watcher

From the internationally bestselling author of Sarah's Key comes Tatiana de Rosnay's Flowers of Darkness, a riveting and emotionally intense novel, set in a near future Paris, where a woman confronts past betrayal and present mystery Author Clarissa Katsef is struggling to write her next book. She’s just snagged a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment, with a view of all of Paris, a dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But since moving in, she has had the feeling of being watched. Is there reason to be paranoid? Or is her distraction and discomfort the result of her husband’s recent shocking betrayal? Or is that her beloved Paris lies altered outside her windows? A city that will never be quite the same, a city with a scar at its center? Stuck inside, in the midst of a sweltering heat wave, Clarissa enlists her beloved granddaughter in her investigation of the mysterious, high tech building even as she finds herself drawn back into the orbit of her first husband who is still the one who knows her most intimately, who shares the past grief that she has never quite let go. Staying true to her favorite themes—the imprint of the place, the weight of secrets—de Rosnay weaves an intrigue of thrilling suspense and emotional power.

Flowers of Darkness

Determined to protect her historical family home from Napoleon's orders to renovate 1860s Paris, Rose Bazelet establishes a defense in the basement of her house on rue Childebert and records her experiences in letters to her late husband, a process that helps her come to terms with a decades-old secret. By the best-selling author of Sarah's Key. 150,000 first printing.

The House I Loved

   Paris, iulie 1942: Sarah, o fetiţă evreică în vârstă de zece ani, este arestată în toiul nopţii, împreună cu părinţii ei, de poliţia franceză, dar nu înainte de a-şi încuia fratele în ascunzătoarea lor secretă, convinsă fiind că se va întoarce după numai câteva ore pentru a-l elibera.

   Paris, mai 2002: Julia, o jurnalistă americană, stabilită de mulţi ani la Paris şi măritată cu un francez, trebuie să scrie un articol despre razia de la Vel’ d’Hiv, cu ocazia comemorării a şaizeci de ani de la acest eveniment de tristă amintire în istoria Franţei. În timpul investigaţiei sale, Julia descoperă întâmplător o serie de secrete de familie adânc îngropate, care o leagă de Sarah, şi simte nevoia de a reconstitui destinul tragic al fetei. Pe măsură ce se adânceşte în trecutul ei, lucrurile pe care le află o tulbură şi o fac să-şi pună întrebări cu privire la propria existenţă.

   Se numea Sarah este povestea înduioşătoare a două familii unite de un secret teribil, dar şi o tulburătoare pagină de istorie: Tatiana de Rosnay descrie un episod real din Franţa aflată sub ocupaţie şi rupe tăcerea care înconjoară un subiect dureros, uneori chiar tabu, din istoria francezilor.

Se numea Sarah

Paris, juillet 1942 : Sarah, une fillette de dix ans qui porte l'étoile jaune, est arrêtée avec ses parents par la police française, au milieu de la nuit. Paniquée, elle met son petit frère à l'abri en lui promettant de revenir le libérer dès que possible. Paris, mai 2002 : Julia Jarmond, une journaliste américaine mariée à un Français, doit couvrir la commémoration de la rafle du Vél d'Hiv. Soixante ans après, son chemin va croiser celui de Sarah, et sa vie changer à jamais. Elle s'appelait Sarah, c'est l'histoire de deux familles que lie un terrible secret, c'est aussi l'évocation d'une des pages les plus sombres de l'Occupation. Un roman bouleversant sur la culpabilité et le devoir de mémoire, qui connaît un succès international, avec des traductions dans vingt pays.

Elle s'appelait Sarah

"The first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, in the tradition of THE NEST. "Hypnotic, passionate, ominous and tender--unforgettable." --Jenna Blum, New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Those Who Save Us The Rain Watcher is a powerful family drama set in Paris as the Malegarde family gathers to celebrate the father's 70th birthday. Their hidden fears and secrets are slowly unraveled as the City of Light undergoes a stunning natural disaster. Seen through the eyes of charismatic photographer Linden Malegarde, the youngest son, all members of the family will have to fight to keep their unity against tragic circumstances. In this profound and intense novel of love and redemption, De Rosnay demonstrates all of her writer's skills both as an incredible storyteller but also as a soul seeker"--

a novel

The rain watcher

«La nuit dernière, j’ai rêvé que je retournais à Manderley...» : la phrase qui ouvre le roman Rébecca a fait rêver des générations de lecteurs. Tout le monde connait L’Auberge de la Jamaïque, Rebecca ou Les Oiseaux d’Alfred Hitchcock, mais l’auteur des oeuvres qui l’ont inspiré, Daphné du Maurier (vendue pourtant à des millions d’exemplaires et traduite en une quarantaine de langues), est aujourd’hui tombé dans l’oubli. Pourquoi Daphné du Maurier est-elle considérée comme un auteur de romans féminins, alors que ses histoires sont souvent noires et dérangeantes ? Que sait-on vraiment de son lien étroit avec la France, de ses liaisons longtemps tenues secrètes, des correspondances ténues que son oeuvre entretient avec sa vie, et dans laquelle elle parle beaucoup de son histoire familiale ? Portrait d’un écrivain par un autre écrivain, Manderley décrit minutieusement une vie aussi mystérieuse que l’oeuvre qu’elle sous-tend – toute de suspense psychologique –, et met en lumière l’amour fou de cette femme pour son manoir de Cornouailles. Un portrait tout en nuances de la plus énigmatique des romancières britanniques, mais davantage encore : un voyage littéraire sur les traces d’un des plus grands auteurs de best-sellers de son époque, méprisé par la critique mais adulé du public.

Roman

Manderley for ever

Paris, 1942: Sara, en ti ?r gammel jødisk jente, gjemmer sin yngre bror i et skap like før familien arresteres av det franske politiet i den beryktede aksjonen mot jøder i det som senere er blitt kjent som Vel d'Hiv. Hun l?ser skapdøren og legger nøkkelen i lommen, overbevist om at hun vil være tilbake om noen timer. Men timene blir døgn, og Saras desperasjon vokser...Paris, 2002: I anledning seksti?rsmarkeringen for Vel d'Hiv blir journalisten Julia Jarmond bedt om ? skrive en artikkel om denne svarte dagen i Frankrikes historie. Mens hun gjør research for artikkelen, snubler hun over Saras historie. Julia blir mer og mer opptatt av Sara og hennes families skjebne, og etter hvert tvinges hun til ? stille spørsm?l ved sitt eget liv. --back cover

Saras nøkkel

Traces the life and achievements of classic novelist Daphne du Maurier, sharing creative insights into the master writer's life at different ages and her enduring influence in literature.

A Biography of Daphne Du Maurier

Manderley Forever

Noor Koch

Wanneer een vrouw met haar gezin een nieuwe woning betrekt, weet haar mysterieuze bovenbuurman haar het leven zuur te maken.

Het appartement

Hoping to put a generations-old secret behind him, Nicholas Duhamel becomes a successful writer and pens a novel that makes him famous before he is forced to reexamine his family's disturbing past. By the best-selling author of Sarah's Key. 150,000 first printing.

The Other Story

Haar naam was Sarah / druk 1

La chiave di Sara

From the internationally best-selling author of SARAH'S KEY comes an irreverent yet heartfelt collection that examines our most intimate and forbidden desires Does a fruit taste its sweetest when it is forbidden? Is that which is prohibited always the most pleasurable? In this passionate and perceptive collection, Tatiana de Rosnay paints a portrait of the most forbidden of loves, in many different shades—sometimes tragic, sometimes humorous, sometimes heartfelt, always with a dry wit and an unflinching authenticity. A PARIS AFFAIR is an enjoyable "undressing" of intimate delights, where laughter mingles with compassion and the heartbeats of illicit desire.

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