A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel

A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis

Françoise Frenkel with Patrick Modiano

288 pages first pub 1945 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir reflective sad slow-paced
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An “exceptional” (The Wall Street Journal) and “poignant” (The New York Times) book in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, the powerful memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight f...

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emotional 70%
sad 54%
tense 52%
dark 47%
challenging 39%
informative 35%
reflective 33%
inspiring 31%
hopeful 20%
adventurous 18%

Pace

medium 57%
slow 28%
fast 13%

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