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Author Frenkel, Françoise, 1889-1975, author.

Title A Bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis / Franc̦oise Frenkel ; with a preface from Patrick Modiano ; Dossier compiled by Frédéric Maria ; translated by Stephanie Smee.

Publication Info. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2020.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  LP BIO FRENKEL    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Reading Room  LP B FRENKEL, FRANCOISE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction Large Type  LT 940.5318 FRENKEL    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Large Print Materials  LARGE PRINT BIOG FRENKEL, FRANCOISE    Check Shelf
Edition Center Point Large Print edition.
Description 328 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Physical Medium large print rdafs
Note Regular print version previously published by: Atria Books.
Translation of: Rien où poser sa tête.
Summary "In 1921, Franc̦oise Frenkel-a Jewish woman from Poland-fulfills a lifelong dream. She opens Berlin's first French-language bookshop, La Maison du Livre, attracting artists, diplomats, celebrities, and poets. The shop soon becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. But as the occupation intensifies and politics darken, Frenkel's bookshop is frequently visited by police officers who confiscate her beloved books. Frenkel's dream finally shatters on Kristallnacht-The Night of Broken Glass-as Jewish shops and businesses, including La Maison du Livre, are destroyed. She flees to Paris where she witnesses countless horrors: children torn from their parents, mothers throwing themselves under buses, and worse. Secreted away from one safe house to the next, Frenkel survives at the heroic hands of strangers risking their lives to protect her. Originally published in 1945, and rediscovered nearly sixty years later in an attic, A Bookshop in Berlin is the remarkable tale of one woman whose passion for life and literature helps her survive history's darkest hours"--Provided by publisher.
Language Translated from the French.
Subject Frenkel, Françoise, 1889-1975.
Jewish women -- Germany -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
Berlin (Germany) -- Biography.
Large type books.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst00958866
Jewish women. (OCoLC)fst00983062
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
Germany -- Berlin. (OCoLC)fst01204829
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Autobiographies.
Added Author Modiano, Patrick, 1945- writer of preface.
Maria, Frédéric, compiler.
Smee, Stephanie, translator.
Added Title Rien où poser sa tête. English
ISBN 9781643584904 (hardback : alk. paper)
1643584901 (hardback : alk. paper)
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