{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Sarah's Key","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/sarahs-key","description":"Paris, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel\u0026#39; d\u0026#39;Hiv\u0026#39; roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. But before the police come to take them, Sarah locks her younger brother, Michel, in their favorite hiding place, a cupboard in the family\u0026#39;s apartment. She keeps the key, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel\u0026#39;d\u0026#39;Hiv\u0026#39;s sixtieth anniversary, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist, is asked by her Paris-based American magazine to write an article about this black day in France\u0026#39;s past. Julia has lived in Paris for nearly twenty-five years, married a Frenchman, and she is shocked both by her ignorance about the event and the silence that still surrounds it. In the course of her investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl\u0026#39;s ordeal, from the terrible days spent shut in at the Vel\u0026#39; d\u0026#39;Hiv\u0026#39; to the camps and beyond. As she probes into Sarah\u0026#39;s past, she begins to question her own place in France and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.","author_name":"Tatiana de Rosnay","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/tatiana-de-rosnay","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/30402363/a8ee988b54c065ac909fda3c6388ba6687de9009.jpeg","thumbnail_width":326,"thumbnail_height":500}