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Frenkel, Françoise

 
9781782274001: No Place to Lay One's Head: With a Preface by Patrick Modiano
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1782274006 ISBN 13: 9781782274001
Verlag: Pushkin Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

In 1921, Françoise Frenkel ¿ a Jewish woman from Poland ¿ opens her first bookshop in Berlin. It is a dream come true. The dream lasts nearly two decades. Then suddenly, it ends.

It ends after police confiscations and the Night of Broken Glass, as Jewish shops and businesses are smashed to pieces. It ends when no one protests. So Françoise flees to France, just weeks before war breaks out.

In Paris, on the wireless and in the newspapers, horror has made itself at home. When the city is bombed, Françoise seeks refuge in Avignon, then Nice. She fears she may never see her family again. Nice is awash with refugees and terrible suffering; children are torn from their parents; mothers throw themselves under buses. Horrified by what she sees, Françoise goes into hiding. She survives only because strangers risk their lives to protect her.

Set against the romantic landscapes of Southern France, No Place to Lay One's Head is a heartbreaking tale of human cruelty and unending kindness; of a woman whose lust for life refuses to leave her, even in her darkest hours.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Very little is known about Françoise 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.

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Verlag
Pushkin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1782274006
ISBN 13 
9781782274001
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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