Sarah Is Key – Audiobook Online By: Tatiana de Rosnay
Now a big motion picture starring Kristin Scott Thomas.
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10-year-old girl, is brutally arrested by French police with her family during a raid on Vel’ d’Hiv’, but before that she has locked her brother in a cupboard in the apartment family household. , thinking she’ll be back in a few hours.
Paris, May 2002: On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Vel’ d’Hiv, journalist Julia Jarmond was asked to write an article about this dark day in France’s past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles across traces of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself forced to relive the girl’s ordeal, from that horrible term in Vel d’Hiv’, to the camps, and beyond. As she explores Sarah’s past, she begins to question her own place in France, while reassessing her marriage and life.
Tatiana de Rosnay brings us an incredibly delicate, fascinating portrait of France under occupation, while revealing the taboos and silences that surrounded this painful period.
About the film: Stéphane Marsil presents a film by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, adapted from the novel by Tatiana de Rosnay published by Heloise D’Ormesson; Kristin Scott Thomas, Melusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frederic Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Natasha Mashkevich, starring Gisele Casadesus and Aidan Quinn as William Rainsferd.
Screenplay by Serge Joncour and Giles Paquet-Brenner; Produced by Stéphane Marsil; Director of Photography Pascal Ridao (A.F.C.); First Assistant Director Olivier Coutard; Casting Gwendale Schmitz; Designer Francoise Dupertuis (A.D.C.); Eric Perron Wardrobe; Sound Engineers Didier Codoul, Bruno Seznec, Alexandre Fleurant and Fabien Devillers; Editor Herve Schneid (A.C.E.); Original Music Max Richter; Necklace maker Clement Sentilhes; Executive producer Antoine Theron.
Weinstein Company introduces Hugo Productions -Studio 37 – TF1 Droits Audiovisuels – France 2 Cinema; Co-production with the participation of Canal+, TPS Star and French Television with the support of the Ile-De-France Region; combined with images sofa A Plus.
Some parts of this book I also had to listen to short passages – sometimes a little hard to hear. But good, very good – and very bad, the bad is not the fault of the author but the fault of history. There were times when I had to grit my teeth to keep listening – but it’s a good book and I have a feeling it’s going to be with me for a very long time.
An interesting treatment of the history of the treatment of Jews in France during World War 2. A young girl with a gold star was taken from her home. A boy hiding in a forgotten closet. A family has moved into their vacant apartment. Relatives are now finding out what happened in that apartment decades later.
