The little Paris bookshop : a novel / Nina George ; translated by Simon Pare.
Language: English Original language: German Publication details: London : Abacus, Little, Brown Book Group, 2015.Edition: First editionDescription: 359 pages : map ; 24 cmISBN:- 0349140359 (pbk.)
- 9780349140353
- Lavendelzimmer. English
- Psychological fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- Love stories
- FICTION / Psychological
- Books and reading -- Fiction
- FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
- Books and reading -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Mental healing -- Fiction
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction
- Love stories
- Paris (France) -- Fiction
- Paris (France) -- Fiction
- 833/.92 23
- PT2707.E59 L3813 2015
- FIC019000 | FIC027020 | FIC025000
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | GEO | Available | 059006 |
"Originally published in Germany as Das Lavendelzimmer by Knaur Verlag in 2013"--Verso title page.
There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean books--that were written for one person only...A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books." Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened. After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country's rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself. Internationally bestselling and filled with warmth and adventure, The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives.
Translated from the German.