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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Feb 04 2010 : 08:34:06 AM
I am posting the review from NPR's website regarding the movie made of this book. I had no idea, but I'm super excited to see it. I loved the book, so I'm bumping this for those of us who read it (and maybe will now--and then see the movie!)http://www.npr.org/2011/07/22/138509581/sarahs-key-unlocks-historical-coincidence
If you haven't read it, please pick up a copy (library, used, garage sale) etc...I began reading Tuesday night in bed, read on my lunch hour yesterday and then again in bed last night and finished it.
The book is historical fiction, but researches the (true) French police roundup, deportation and eventual slaughter of about 14,000 Jews from the city of Paris in the Summer, early in the German occupation of France. The book juxtaposes the life of a Jewish girl during that summer, and the life of a "modern American female" journalist, married, living in Paris and uncovering the truths and atrocities about this mass deportation, the the French citizens have tried to forget.
Heartbreaking, suspenseful, and full of glorious detail--an emotionally compelling book which leaves the reader with many moral questions...and this reader with a desire never, never to forget what happened during the Holocaust.
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| knittinchick |
Posted - Jul 27 2011 : 8:13:03 PM
I just saw the trailer for the movie today, and now I definitely want to read the book and see the movie!
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Megan
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| dutchy |
Posted - Jul 24 2011 : 10:24:19 PM
The book is wonderful, and so is the movie. Most movies are not true to books but this is. IF you can...go see it.
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| Lessie Louise |
Posted - Jul 24 2011 : 08:11:21 AM
I saw the authr of the book being interviewed recently, and she said the producer of the movie kept very close to the book. She said she was very pleased with how the movie was done. I will most likely go see it, once I prepare myself
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| knittinchick |
Posted - Jul 22 2011 : 7:01:17 PM
This sounds like a good read! Glad you bumped this Jonni!
God's and Farmgirl's Blessings,
Megan
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| mindy_marie |
Posted - Jul 22 2011 : 4:39:17 PM
Gosh, I don't know if I could see the movie. I cried so much while I read the book. Sometimes I had to just put it down and walk away for a while I was in such disbelief that things like that could happen. I like to believe people are genuinely good and things like that just shake me to the core.
Mindy
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| carolbrigid |
Posted - May 02 2010 : 12:01:21 PM
Yes, Jonni, it really is a great book. I know a lot about the Holocaust, or thought I did. I had never heard of this situation in Paris until I read this book. It was very moving, and very well written. I think your friend the law clerk will really enjoy reading this. I like to read books about the Holocaust, but I have to be in the right frame of mind for it. I used to date someone who is Jewish and through him I learned so much about this time in history and I have visited the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. several times. It never fails to move me when I am there......
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Carol
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| vintagediva1 |
Posted - Apr 16 2010 : 08:14:36 AM
Jonni,
Iread this book about a year ago and still can't get it out of my mind.
There is a Holocaust memorial in Paris that is quite touching and chilling at the same time. I think there were plenty of Parisians who didn't want to sweep the incidents under the rug but lived in fear in a very dangerous and fearful time
Michele
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 06:42:17 AM
Carol, it really was wonderful, wasn't it? I am trying to think of "who" to give it to next that might appreciate it. Our law clerk worked at the Holocaust Museum and I think she's the next candidate...
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| carolbrigid |
Posted - Apr 10 2010 : 07:39:43 AM
I have read a lot of books, and I can honestly say this was one of the best books I have ever read.
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Carol
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Feb 24 2010 : 7:50:16 PM
I was the same way - couldn't put it down, I finished it in one day.
Amy Grace
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Feb 23 2010 : 11:21:18 AM
Amy, I'm so glad you liked the book! It was a really quick read for me...could not put it down and I wanted JUST a little bit more from the end!!! I already have the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet on my reading list, so I can't wait to get to it (it's going to be in between the Pink Carnation series)...
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Feb 20 2010 : 9:04:00 PM
Jonni - thanks for this recommendation, what an amazing book!! I read it right after I read The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - also a really good read. They were both WWII era going back and forth between present/past. There are so many parts of history that you never hear about....
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Feb 05 2010 : 06:53:00 AM
Of course! The well-oiled wheels of Propaganda! I do think, in all honesty, that the German people were really sold a strong bill of goods. Occupied France was more terrified...you do what you're told.
Oddly enough, there are people in our world today that really don't believe the Holocaust took place--that it's exaggerated, or fictional. Frightening, indeed.
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| Lessie Louise |
Posted - Feb 05 2010 : 06:47:35 AM
Jonni, I had some old LIFE magazines and they displayed these "happy", working prisoners in the Death Camps and say that there is no way possible horrible things couls be happening in Germany. You just read them in total disbelief. I don't think the world could believe somrthing like that could happen.
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Feb 05 2010 : 05:59:11 AM
Didn't it, Carol? I find that each time I read something about the Holocaust, that there is such utter disbelief within me...deep down. It always makes me wonder "who" I would have been then...like you said, it was the very people that they knew each and every day.
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| Lessie Louise |
Posted - Feb 04 2010 : 12:38:45 PM
I read that book last year and it just takes your breath away, it is so hard to understand how people treat each other. It was the people they saw every day who turned them. We went to the Holocaust Museum In Washington DC last summer. It was very emotional. And I know I will never forget what happened.
Forget buns of steel, I'd rather have buns of cinnamon!
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Feb 04 2010 : 10:58:59 AM
I'm on my way to the library this morning so will look for it - thanks Jonni!!
Amy Grace
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| dutchy |
Posted - Feb 04 2010 : 09:08:53 AM
Thanks, will try to see if I can find it...somewhere.
I am always very interested in books about WWII
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