An American journalist researches the notorious roundup of Parisian Jews and uncovers her French family's war-era secrets, in this page-turning, interconnected novel of modern-day Paris and occupied France Paris.

July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother, Michel, in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.

Paris, May 2002: On Vel'd'Hiv's 60th anniversary, Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.

塔季雅娜•德•羅斯奈（Tatiana de Rosnay）

1961年齣生於巴黎，擁有法國、英國、俄羅斯的血統。20世紀70年代，她跟隨前往麻省理工學院任教的父親移居美國波士頓。大學畢業後，她年重返巴黎。

《莎拉的鑰匙》是塔季雅娜首次以英文母語創作的小說。此作從2007年在英語世界齣版至今，不僅攻占《紐約時報》暢銷書榜，光是美國地區，銷售量就已突破百萬冊；而在歐洲，其聲勢更勝過《刺蝟的優雅》，甚至讓她超越眾多法國名傢，成為2009年全歐洲銷量稱霸的法語作傢。

2008年，塔季雅娜憑藉《莎拉的鑰匙》榮獲法國“科西嘉讀者奬”和“書商首選書奬”，成為法國廣大讀者最期盼閱讀的作傢，是近年來歐陸和英語世界最值得期待的重要作傢。