Comment: Sarah is a Jewish girl who had the roundup of the Vel d'Hiv in July 1942 with his parents. In 2002, 60 years after this tragic event, Julia Jarmond, expatriate American journalist, is responsible for writing a paper on the event. She then left on the trail of the little girl whose fate is sadly related to that of his wife's family ...
The novel alternates the story of these two stories. The style is simple, fluid and rhythmic. No length, no digressions: the reader is drawn into the plot of the novel, although the events and characters are expected. Regardless, I was touched by the story of Tatiana de Rosnay which deals with an episode in the history of France often forgotten and which proposes the same time, an emotional approach intergenerational relationships. Remember the raid involved in the process of grieving families of many victims. Her name was Sarah fits aptly into this memory. It should be read because France needs to remember: the accusation has indeed been. Learn to admit, that provide opportunities for future generations not to repeat past mistakes ...
"A Stella, my mother
To my Charlotte, beautiful and rebellious
A Natacha my grandmother (1914-2005) "
Citations: " My God! What makes me this country!
Since rejects me, consider it coldly, let us look
lose his honor and his life. "Irene Nemirovsky
, French Suite, 1942
" Tiger! Tiger! Fire and flame
In the forests of the night, What hand
, what immortal eye
Put your great shape symmetry? "
William Blake Songs of Experience
Excerpts:
"Operation Spring Wind," I murmured
- A charming name, is not it, for something so horrible, "said it. The Gestapo had requested a number of Jews between sixteen and fifty years. The French police had shown zealous, determined to deport up to Jews and it had also arrested with small children, those born in France. The French children. " p. 81
"16 and July 17, 1942, 13,152 Jews were arrested in Paris and its suburbs, deported and murdered in Auschwitz. In the Velodrome d'Hiver, which was here, 4,115 children, 2,916 women, 1,129 men were herded in inhuman conditions by the police of the Vichy government by order of the Nazi occupiers. Let those who tried to help them be thanked. Incidentally, remember! "P.98
" The French government itself was working on the project since April 1942 establishing the list of all Jews to stop. More than six thousand police in Paris were assigned to this task. At first we had chosen on 14 July. But it is the day when France celebrates its national day. That is why the date was pushed back. "P.97
date: May 2008
Number Pages: 403 p.
Cover: Ouka Leele / Agence Vu
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