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A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis

A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis

Frenkel, Françoise, 1889-1975, author.
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Françoise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving for French culture in that city in the wake of the First World War. Her business was a success - attracting diplomats and celebrities, authors and artists. But life in Berlin for a Jewish woman and a foreigner soon became untenable. Frenkel was forced to flee...

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Frenkel, Françoise, 1889-1975
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ISBN:
9781501199844
1501199846
Edition:
First Atria Books hardcover edition
Description:
xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translation of: Rien où poser sa tête
Originally published in French: Paris : L'Arbalète Gallimard, 2015
This English translation originally published under the title: No place to lay one's head. North Sydney, N.S.W. : Penguin Random House Australia, 2017
In English, translated from the French
Control Number:
2826578
Other Authors:
Maria, Frédéric, compiler
Modiano, Patrick, 1945- writer of preface
Smee, Stephanie, translator
translation of: Frenkel, Françoise, 1889-1975. Rien où poser sa tête. English
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