02864cam a2200433 i 4500 419422371 TxAuBib 20200303120000.0 191214s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019951751 9781643584904 $37.95 1643584901 $37.95 (OCoLC)1128200892 TxAuBib rda eng fre Frenkel, Fran©ʹoise, 1889-1975,. Rien o©£ poser sa t©®te English. A Bookshop in Berlin [LP] : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis / Fran©ʹoise Frenkel ; with a preface from Patrick Modiano ; dossier compiled by Fr©♭d©♭ric Maria ; translated by Stephanie Smee. Center Point Large Print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2020. 328 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Regular print version previously published by: Atria Books. Translation of: Rien o©£ poser sa t©®te. "In 1921, Fran©ʹoise 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. 20200303. Translated from the French. Frenkel, Fran©ʹoise, 1889-1975. Jewish women Germany Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Germany Berlin Biography. Large type books. Berlin (Germany) Biography. Autobiographies. Modiano, Patrick, 1945- Maria, Fr©♭d©♭ric,. Smee, Stephanie,.