A Bookshop in Berlin : One Woman's Flight from the Nazis Tiina Nunnally (Translator) irreverent and humorous satire on

irreverent and humorous satire on conventional virtues

Seamus Heaney

Its unflinching and remorseless depiction of venality in Russian society is a lasting tribute to Gogol's comic genius

disturbing deaths and haunting melancholy

but also find a home in the humor

A Bookshop in Berlin : One Woman's Flight from the Nazis Tiina Nunnally (Translator) irreverent and humorous satire onInitially published as No Place to Lay One's Head the unforgettable story of one woman's struggle to survive persecution in wartime France In 1921, Franoise 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 Franoise peace, friendship and prosperity. Then, in the summer of 1939, the dream ends and Franoise's desperate,