A BOOKSHOP IN BERLIN

Initially published as No Place to Lay One s Head the unforgettable story of one woman s struggle to survive persecution in wartime FranceIn 1921 Françoise Frenkel a Jewish woman from Poland opens Berlin s very first French bookshop It is a dream come true The bookshop attracts artists and diplomats celebrities and poets It brings Françoise peace friendship and prosperity Then in the summer of 1939 the dream ends and Françoise s desperate headlong flight from Nazi persecution begins Unfolding in Berlin Paris and against the romantic 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