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No place to lay one's head
- Title
- No place to lay one's head / Françoise Frenkel ; with a preface by Patrick Modiano ; dossier compiled by Frédéric Maria ; translated by Stephanie Smee.
- Author
- Frenkel, Françoise, 1889-1975
- Publication
- London : Pushkin Press, 2017.
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- Description
- 299 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- In 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 - even the French ambassador himself. It brings Françoise peace, friendship and prosperity. Then one summer's day in 1939, the dream ends. It ends after Kristallnacht, when Jewish shops and businesses are smashed to pieces. It ends when no one protests. So, just weeks before the war breaks out, Françoise flees to France. In Paris, on the wireless and in the newspapers, horror has made itself at home. When the city is bombed, Françoise seeks refuge in Nice, which is awash with refugees and terrible suffering. Children are torn from their parents; mothers throw themselves under buses. Horrified by what she sees, Françoise goes into hiding. She survives only because strangers risk their lives to protect her. Unfolding in Berlin, Paris and against the romantic landscapes of Southern France, No Place to Lay One's Head is a heartbreaking tale of human cruelty and unending kindness; of a woman whose lust for life refuses to leave her, even in her darkest hours. --
- Uniform Title
- Rien où poser sa tête. English
- Alternative Title
- Rien où poser sa tête.
- Subject
- Frenkel, Françoise, 1889-1975
- 1900-1999
- Jewish women > Germany > Berlin > Biography
- Jewish women > France > Biography
- Jewish refugees > 20th century > Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Jewish
- World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Polish
- World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > France
- Jewish refugees
- Jewish women
- Jews
- France
- Germany > Berlin
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives – Jewish.
- Personal narratives – Polish.
- Note
- First published in France as Rien où poser sa tête by L'Arbalété Gallimard in 2015.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-1083
- ISBN
- 9781782273998
- 1782273999
- LCCN
- 2018438215
- OCLC
- 987052776
- Author
- Frenkel, Françoise, 1889-1975, author.
- Title
- No place to lay one's head / Françoise Frenkel ; with a preface by Patrick Modiano ; dossier compiled by Frédéric Maria ; translated by Stephanie Smee.
- Publisher
- London : Pushkin Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Modiano, Patrick, 1945- writer of preface.Maria, Frédéric, compiler.Smee, Stephanie, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-1083