Sarah's Key

The novel weaves together two parallel stories surrounding the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup of Parisian Jews in 1942. The first storyline follows ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski, who, as she is arrested with her parents by the French police, locks her four-year-old brother in a secret cupboard, believing she will be back soon to free him. The second storyline is set in Paris in May 2002, where American journalist Julia Jarmond is assigned to write an article for the 60th anniversary of the roundup. During her contemporary investigation, Julia discovers a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her and her French in-laws to Sarah's past. Julia becomes compelled to retrace Sarah's harrowing ordeal from the Vel' d'Hiv' to the internment camps and beyond, uncovering the taboos and silence surrounding this dark episode in French history.

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