A Bookshop in Berlin : The rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
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Modiano, Patrick, 1945- writer of preface.
Maria, Frédéric, compiler.
Smee, Stephanie, translator.
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Avon Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.5318 FRE
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BIO FRE
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BIO FRENKEL
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xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English

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"First published in France as Rien où poser sa tête by L'Arbalète Gallimard in 2015"--Title page verso.
General Note
"Originally published in English by Vintage Australia in 2017"--Title page verso.
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"Previously published by Pushkin Press in 2018"--Title page verso.
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In 1921, Françoise 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. Françoise'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 Françoise 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, Françoise survives at the heroic hands of strangers risking their lives to protect her.
Language
Translated from the French.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Frenkel, F., Modiano, P., Maria, F., & Smee, S. (2019). A Bookshop in Berlin: The rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis . Artia Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Françoise Frenkel et al.. 2019. A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape From the Nazis. New York: Artia Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Françoise Frenkel et al.. A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape From the Nazis New York: Artia Books, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Frenkel, Françoise, Patrick Modiano, Frédéric Maria, and Stephanie Smee. A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape From the Nazis Artia Books, 2019.

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