Sunday, February 5, 2012
Sarah's Key
I have just finished reading Sarah's Key, by Tatiana De Rosnay. This was definitely one of my favorite reads of all time. Near the end, when American Julia Jarmond living in Paris, realizes that the apartment that her family is renovating, the same chic apartment that her husband's grandmother lived in, was the home of Sara Starzynski before the Holocaust. Sarah, the young girl who Julia was trying to search through history to know more about, had locked her brother in a secret cabinet when the Nazis had come to take her family, thinking that they were to return in a matter of hours. Days became months, and soon it had been over a year when Sarah escaped and made her way home, with both her mother and father dead. Sarah walked in to see a new family living there, or Julia's family, and her rotting brother dead. Julia then tried to find the roots of Sarah's family, which led her to William, Sarah's son. Julia learned that Sarah was long dead, being killed in a fatal car crash. The marvelous book ends with the mystery, had Sarah killed herself?
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This sounds like a very interesting book. I think that Sarah would have killed herself because she probably couldn't live with the fact that maybe it was "her fault" her brother had died.
ReplyDeleteI loved this book as well. It was very good, but also extremely sad and dramatic as you stated in your summary of the plot and the book. One of the parts I found most dramatic was Julia's discovery that Sarah was dead and died in a car crash, after following this mystery for so long and longing to meet her. The mystery ending leads the reader hanging, something I like and dislike at the same time about this book. Like you, I would recommend this book to anyone.
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