Frenkel, Francoise. A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis (non-fiction) 287 pages
DC: Not listed as available yet. 5 holds
MC: HC: 18 copies, 35 holds, 1 available
Amazon: HC, Kindle, Audio
SUBJECT: 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. Terrific translation from the French. Arthur
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