COMP CLOSED | Book Giveaway | A Jewish Girl in Paris

A Jewish Girl in Paris
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We are very pleased to be giving away two copies of Melanie Levensohn’s book, ‘A Jewish Girl in Paris’, to our GrownUps members.

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About A Jewish Girl in Paris

Inspired by a powerful true story of forbidden love, this novel is set in World War II and in the 1980s

Paris, 1940: The City of Lights under German occupation. Christian, son of a bank director, falls in love with Jewish girl Judith. The young couple secretly plan to flee, but suddenly Judith disappears. Christian begins a frantic search.

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 must promise her father to find the sister she never knew. But the search languishes for twenty-five years, until Jacobina is spurred on by her much-younger friend Béatrice, a French diplomat experiencing a painful midlife crisis.

At the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., they meet Grégoire. Not only does he make Béatrice’s head turn, he also finds clues to Judith’s whereabouts. Soon the two women discover a dark family secret, stretching over two continents and six decades. It will change their lives forever.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Melanie Levensohn was born in 1970 near Frankfurt, Germany, and studied international relations and literature in France and Chile. She earned her master’s degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. She later worked as a spokesperson for the
World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and travelled to the most complex political hotspots around the world. She reported from Liberia during the civil war in 2003 and was based in Amman, Jordan, as a UN spokesperson during the Iraq war. From 2006–13 Melanie worked as a communications and media expert at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., where she managed corporate external relations for the Caribbean region with a special focus on reconstruction and development in Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010. She now lives in Geneva.

 

 

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    2. Competition closes on the 11th October 2022, winners will be notified via email by 13th October 2022.
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