The girl was the first to hear the loud pounding on the door. Her room was closest to the entrance of the apartment. At first, dazed with sleep, she thought it was her father, coming up from his hiding place in the cellar. He’d forgotten his keys, and was impatient because nobody had heard his first, timid knock.
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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting French families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard-their secret hiding place-and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released.
Sixty Years Later: Sarah's story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond, an American journalist investigating the roundup. In her research, Julia stumbles onto a trail of secrets that link her to Sarah, and to questions about her own romantic future.
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Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, Nazis, Family secrets, Jews, Anniversaries, Fiction, Women authors, Americans, New York Times bestseller, World War, 1939-1945, nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2009-02-28, History, historical fiction, World War (1939-1945), German Occupation of France (1940-1945), France, German occupation, 1940-1945, Paris (France), Romans, nouvelles, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Juifs, Vel'd'Hiv, Rafle du, 1942, Histoire, Fiction, historical, Jews, fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Women journalists, fiction, Paris (france), fiction, Secrecy, Collaborationists, Persecutions, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Authors, fiction, French fiction, Jews--france--fiction, World war, 1939-1945--anniversaries, etc, World war, 1939-1945--france--anniversaries, etc--fiction, Americans--france--fiction, Women authors--fiction, Family secrets--fiction, Pr9105.9.r66 s27 2007, 823/.914People
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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.
Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in 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.
Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.
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