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 Sarah has locked her brother in their favorite hiding place and kept the key, thinking she will return soon.

Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's sixtieth anniversary, American journalist Julia Jarmond stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah.
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Sarah's Key

Ashton Reed

Was she out of her mind: Could she nơt hope, was that not allowed? She was ten years old and she wanted to hope, she wanted to believe, more than anything, more than life itself.

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