sherbearski - reviewed on 3/15/2011 + 10 more book reviews

This book is a fiction book, and doesn't even claim to be historical fiction, but it is so believable, and made me aware for the first time of the great round up, in 1942 of French Jews at the Velodrome d"Hiver or Vel'd'Hiv for short, which was a true historical event. It tells about how one little girl's life is turned upside down by the event and about a journalist who is writing a story about the event many years later, finds she has a personal tie to the little girl named Sarah. Once I started reading it, I had a hard time putting it down until I read it all. I

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