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Descripton : winner of the jq wingate literary prize a beautiful and important book the independent in the tradition of rediscovered works like suite franaise and the nazi officer s wife the prize winning memoir of a fearless jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across nazi occupied europe in 1921 franoise frenkel a jewish woman from poland 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 franoise 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 franoise 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 franoise survives at the heroic hands of strangers risking their lives to protect her published quietly in 1945 then rediscovered nearly sixty years later in an attic a bookshop in berlin is a remarkable story of survival and resilience of human cruelty and human spirit in the tradition of suite franaise and the nazi officer s wife this book is the tale of a fearless woman whose lust for life and literature refuses to leave her even in her darkest hours