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A review by bookwyrmbella
A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel
2.0
I have read a lot of books set during WWII, Non-Fiction and Fiction, and usually rate them better than this.
Unfortunately, this was not what I expected. The title and description was very misleading. I thought this was going to mostly take place in a French bookshop in Germany before and during WWII. In reality that was only maybe the first 10% - 20% of the book. The rest of it was her running back and forth in France trying to avoid being sent to a concentration camp.
I found it hard to follow once she started doing all of the running. She went back and forth to the same places and the same people. All of the people who harbored her were very brave to do so as they could have been sent to a camp with her but I just didn't connect with her or her story the way I expected to.
Unfortunately, this was not what I expected. The title and description was very misleading. I thought this was going to mostly take place in a French bookshop in Germany before and during WWII. In reality that was only maybe the first 10% - 20% of the book. The rest of it was her running back and forth in France trying to avoid being sent to a concentration camp.
I found it hard to follow once she started doing all of the running. She went back and forth to the same places and the same people. All of the people who harbored her were very brave to do so as they could have been sent to a camp with her but I just didn't connect with her or her story the way I expected to.