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A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis / Francoise Frenkel ; with a preface from Patrick Modiano ; dossier compiled by Frederic Maria ; translated by Stephanie Smee.

by Frenkel, Françoise, 1889-1975.

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Artia Books, 2019.

Frenkel, Françoise, 1889-1975.

Jewish women -- Germany -- Biography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.

Berlin (Germany) -- Biography.

9781501199844 (hc.)

Rien où poser sa tête. English

Alternate title:

Rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis

1st Artia Books hardcover ed.

xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

"First published in France as Rien ou poser sa tete by L'Arbalete Gallimard in 2015"--T. p. verso.

"Originally published in English by Vintage Australia in 2017"--T. p. verso.

"Previously published by Pushkin Press in 2018"--T. p. verso.

In English, translated from the French.

A French bookshop in Berlin -- Paris -- Avignon -- Vichy -- Nice -- Somewhere in the mountains -- Return to Nice -- Grenoble -- At the border -- Annecy -- Saint-Julien -- Annecy -- At the border -- Heading for Switzerland.

"In 1921, Francoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin'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. Francoise'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 Francoise 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, Francoise 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."--Jacket.

Modiano, Patrick, 1945- writer of preface.

Maria, Frédéric compiler.

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