A Jewish Girl in Paris

Paris, 1940, a city under German occupation. A young Jewish girl, Judith, meets a young man, Christian. But he is the son of a wealthy banker and Nazi sympathiser - his family will never approve of the girl he has fallen in love with. As the Germans impose more and more restrictions on Jewish Parisians, the young couple secretly plan to flee the country. But before they can make their escape, Judith disappears . . . Montreal, 1982: Shortly before his death, Lica Grunberg confesses to his daughter, Jacobina, that she has an older half-sister, Judith. Lica escaped the Nazis but lost all contact with his first-born daughter. . . Jacobina promises her father to find the sister she never knew. But the search languishes for years, until Jacobina is spurred on by her younger friend Beatrice. Soon the two women discover a dark family secret, stretching over two continents and six decades which will change their lives forever . . . Inspired by true events and set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Melanie Levensohn''s A Jewish Girl in Paris is a powerful novel about forbidden love, perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, adapted from a translated by Jamie Lee Searle.

Product details

• Authors: Melanie Levensohn, LEVENSOHN MELANIE
• Assisted by: Jamie Lee Searle (Translation)
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781529075762
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-7576-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Montreal, Historical romance, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, Historical fiction, France, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Jewish, Fiction in translation, c 2000 to c 2010, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Paris (City), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1980 to c 1989, Relating to Jewish people and groups, FICTION / Multiple Timelines, Fiction based on or inspired by true events