If you like "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay...
"Sarah's Key" is a historical novel about the roundup and deportation of French Jews in 1942, but it is also a modern tale about families, secrets and loyalties. The story is gripping and moves between modern France and Europe on the verge of the Holocaust.
If you like "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay, you may like these recommendations.
Some are historical, some move back and forth in time and some just have a similar "feel" to the storytelling.
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery
We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renee, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, (she) is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture.
"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne
Bruno (is) a naive nine-year-old raised in a privileged household by strict parents...(Bruno) describes a visit from the Fury and the family's sudden move from Berlin to a place called Out-With in Poland.
(from School Library Journal)
"Those Who Save Us" by Jenna Blum
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmführer of Buchenwald.
"The Hatbox Baby" by Carrie Brown
A love story about an offbeat doctor and a famous fan dancer; and an epic novel about misfits and makeshift families, fragile lives and unpredictable loves-all set against the backdrop of Chicago's 1933 World's Fair.
"The Madonnas of Leningrad" by Debra Dean
Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories-the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild-yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye.
"The Blue Bottle Club" by Penelope Stokes
In 1929, four friends gathered in a cold, dusty attic on Christmas day to make a solemn pact. "Our dreams for the future," they whispered, placing tiny pieces of paper into a blue bottle...Years later, local news reporter Brendan Delaney stumbles upon the bottle and discovers the most poignant story of her career...and possibly the meaning she's searched for all her life.
"Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout
A heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. (from Publishers Weekly)
