Comparing two novels

Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnic and Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay are two very different novels but can be compared in many ways. I finished Adam Gopnic's novel last week and seem to have the Paris theme in novels right now. I just finished Tatiana De Rosnay's novel a few minutes age. They are both the same in the following ways. Adam Gopnic's has written a follow-up novel called Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York . Adam lived and worked in Paris for the New Yorker Magazine and moved back to New York in 2000 with his wife and child. Similarly told in Tatiana's Sarah's key, the author lived in Paris, moved back to New York and lives their with her daughter. Two completely different genres, two very similar told stories about two major cities. I personally enjoyed Tatiana's Sarah's Key which could be compared to the well know "Sophie's Choice" about the Holocaust. This particularly version was told regarding how a group of Parisian women and children were rounded up by their own Paris police force and sent to die in an imprison camp and eventual gas chamber. The story is told through two characters; the novelist voice as a journalist trying to find the truth about this dark time in Paris history, and through a young Parisian who's brother was left behind in Paris in hidding place. The Mother and Father were separated from her only to be gassed at Auschwitz. Sarah is courageous enough to attempt to escape only to be caught and told she could be put to death if the officer told. Sarah, with her charm, convinces the officer she must return to save her brother who is locked in place at her home in Paris, which only she has the key to. So as the title of the novel, Sarah's key. I will not tell you anything more other then it kept me reading all day today it was so good.

In Gopnic's Paris to the Moon the story is more about life in modern day Paris. The adapting and adjusting to being an American in a foreign country. Each author handles this sensitive issue with ease. Both Gopnic and Rosnay explain the difficulty of handling living in Paris with an identity of an American. Interesting enough, the reason both author can handle this so masterfully may be because Adam Gopnic is a dual citizen (Canadian/American) and Tatiana De Rosnay is of English, French and Russian discent. Gopnic now lives back in New York, Rosnay lives with her husband and two children in Paris