Sara

Sarah Starzynski is one of the two main characters in Sarah's Key. The first time we meet her in the book is when she is a ten-year-girl in Paris under World War II. She locked her brother, Michel, in a cupboard, and the whole story follows her pursuit of saving him. She comes too late, and in the end, after she has lived her life, married and has a son, she commits suicide, not managing to deal with the pain of her past.