No Place to Lay One's Head

✍ Scribed by Frenkel, Francoise

• Book ID: 109810118
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780143784128

✦ Synopsis

A bitter, beautiful and important book
Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT
The French sensation, now in English translation.
Fran�oise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving for French culture in that city in the wake of the First World War. Her business was a success - attracting diplomats and celebrities, authors and artists. But life in Berlin for a Jewish woman and a foreigner soon became untenable
Frenkel was forced to flee to Paris and compelled to keep moving as she attempted to survive in a world disintegrating around her. Her observations of and interactions with the French people, both those who would give her up to the Nazi authorities and those who risked their own lives and families by offering her refuge, show how humanity strives to assert itself even in the darkest times.
Frenkel's book, written with piercing...