A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's

A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis

A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK
WINNER OF THE JQâ€“WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE

â€œA haunting tribute to survivors and those lost foreverâ€”and a reminder, in our own troubled era, never to forget.â€ â€”People

An â€œexceptionalâ€ (The Wall Street Journal) and â€œpoignantâ€ (The New York Times) book in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite FranÃ§aise and The Nazi Officerâ€™s Wife, the powerful memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across Nazi-occupied Europe.

In 1921, FranÃ§oise Frenkelâ€”a Jewish woman from Polandâ€”fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlinâ€™s first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations.

FranÃ§oiseâ€™s dream finally shatters on Kristallnacht in November 1938, as hundreds of Jewish shops and businesses are destroyed. La Maison du Livre is miraculously spared, but fear of persecution eventually forces FranÃ§oise on a desperate, lonely flight to Paris. When the city is bombed, she seeks refuge across southern France, witnessing countless horrors: children torn from their parents, mothers throwing themselves under buses. Secreted away from one safe house to the next, FranÃ§oise survives at the heroic hands of strangers risking their lives to protect her.

Published quietly in 1945, then rediscovered nearly sixty years later in an attic, A Bookshop in Berlin is a remarkable story of survival and resilience, of human cruelty and human spirit. In the tradition of Suite FranÃ§aise and The Nazi Officerâ€™s Wife, this book is the tale of a fearless woman whose lust for life and literature refuses to leave her, even in her darkest hours.
Country USA
Brand Atria Books
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-12-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501199844

Country	USA
Brand	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2019-12-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501199844

A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis

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