Description

Trade paperback. 302 pages. First Pushkin Press paperback edition, first printing thus with full number line. The memoir of a Jewish female bookshop owner in Berlin whose dream turned to nightmare after 8 November, 1938 (Kristallnacht ). Fleeing to France and then into hiding this is the story of cruelty and compassion, mindless savagery and undying hope. Previous owner’s small, round blind-stamp on lower fore-edge of first leaf. No spine crease. A clean, tight and unmarked copy. Near fine.