A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK WINNER OF THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever--and a reminder, in our own troubled era, never to forget.
In the tradition of Suite Française and The Nazi Officer\'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..
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.
Secreted away from one safe house to the next, Françoise survives at the heroic hands of strangers risking their lives to protect her.
When the city is bombed, she seeks refuge across southern France, witnessing countless horrors: children torn from their parents, mothers throwing themselves under buses.
La Maison du Livre is miraculously spared, but fear of persecution eventually forces Françoise on a desperate, lonely flight to Paris.
Françoise\'s dream finally shatters on Kristallnacht in November 1938, as hundreds of Jewish shops and businesses are destroyed.
First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations.
In 1935, the scene continues to darken.
The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city.
She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin\'s first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. --People An exceptional (The Wall Street Journal) and poignant (The New York Times) book in the tradition of Rediscovered works like Suite Française and The Nazi Officer\'s Wife, the powerful Memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a Harrowing fight for survival across Nazi-occupied Europe.
In 1921, Françoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream.
A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK WINNER OF THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever--and a reminder, in our own troubled era, never to forget
