{"product_id":"2940173753649","title":"A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A beautiful and important book\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e) in the tradition of rediscovered works like \u003ci\u003eSuite\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrançaise \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Nazi Officer's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, the prize-winning memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across Nazi-occupied Europe. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1921, Françoise Frenkelamp;mdash;a Jewish woman from Polandamp;mdash;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. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrançoise's dream finally shatters on Kristallnacht in November 1938, as hundreds of Jewish shops and businesses are destroyed. La Maison du Livre is miraculously spared, but fear of persecution eventually forces Françoise on a desperate, lonely flight to Paris. When the city is bombed, she seeks refuge across southern France, witnessing countless horrors: children torn from their parents, mothers throwing themselves under buses. Secreted away from one safe house to the next, Françoise survives at the heroic hands of strangers risking their lives to protect her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished quietly in 1945, then rediscovered nearly sixty years later in an attic, \u003ci\u003eA Bookshop in Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable story of survival and resilience, of human cruelty and human spirit. In the tradition of \u003ci\u003eSuite Française \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Nazi Officer's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, this book is the tale of a fearless woman whose lust for life and literature refuses to leave her, even in her darkest hours.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117086032112,"sku":"2940173753649","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940173753649_p0.jpg?v=1763859069","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940173753649","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}