A Bookshop in Berlin

One Woman's Flight from the Nazis

Françoise Frenkel, Stephanie Smee, Patrick Modiano

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Pushkin Press
14 May 2024

Biography; Memoirs; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War

Series: Pushkin Press Classics

'An astonishing memoir... as gripping as any thriller,' -Sunday Times

'Utterly compelling, at once painful and exquisite,' - Philippe Sands, author of East West Street

In 1921, Franoise Frenkel - a Jewish woman from Poland - opens Berlin's first French bookshop. It is a dream come true. The bookshop attracts artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. It brings Franoise peace, friendship and prosperity. Then, in the summer of 1939, the dream ends and Franoise begins a desperate, headlong flight from Nazi persecution.

Unfolding in Berlin, Paris and against the stunning landscapes of southern France, A Bookshop in Berlin is a heartbreaking tale of human cruelty and unending kindness - and of a woman whose lust for life refuses to leave her, even in her darkest hours.

By: Françoise Frenkel
Introduction by: Patrick Modiano
Translated by: Stephanie Smee
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781805330318
ISBN 10: 1805330314
Series: Pushkin Press Classics
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 14 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Very little is known about Franoise Frenkel's life. She was born in Poland in 1889, and in 1921 set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin with her husband. In 1939, she returned to Paris, and after the German invasion the following year fled to occupied Vichy. After several years in hiding, she made a desperate attempt to cross the border to Switzerland. Frenkel died in Nice in 1975. Her memoir, originally published in Geneva in 1945, was rediscovered in a flea market in 2010, republished in the original French and is now being translated and published in numerous languages for the first time. Stephanie Smee is a translator of French adult and children's books into English. Her other languages include German, Italian and Swedish.

Reviews for A Bookshop in Berlin: One Woman's Flight from the Nazis

'It has massive potential to connect with readers as an eyewitness testimony to the creep of oppression and hatred alongside its moral defence of literature, art and freedom' -The Bookseller, Editor's Choice