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The little Paris bookshop : a novel / Nina George ; translated by Simon Pare.
Monsieur Perdu is a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore on the Seine, he prescribes novels as medicine for the hardships of life, using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs. The only person he can't seem to heal though 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 he finally reads the letter, he departs with his book-barge to the south of France, hoping to find the end of the story.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780553418774 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 392 pages : map ; 22 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2015]
Content descriptions
| Language Note: | Translated from the German. |
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| Subject: | Booksellers and bookselling > Fiction. Books and reading > Fiction. Mental healing > Fiction. Paris (France) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Love stories. |
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| Gibsons Public Library | BOOK CLUB GEOR (Text) | 30886000643730 | Book Club Sets | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-21 |
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| Gibsons Public Library | BOOK CLUB GEOR (Text) | 30886000643789 | Book Club Sets | Not holdable | Lost | 2017-05-23 |
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More information
- Baker & Taylor
""A book is both doctor and medicine. It makes diagnoses and provides therapy. Bringing the right novels together with the appropriate people is the way I sell books." - Baker & Taylor
Prescribing books that offer therapeutic benefits to his customers, a literary apothecary in a floating bookstore on the Seine struggles with private heartbreak before embarking on a journey of healing at the side of a blocked writer and a lovelorn chef. Reading-group guide available. - Baker & Taylor
Prescribing books that offer therapeutic benefits to his customers, a literary apothecary in a floating bookstore on the Seine struggles with private heartbreak before embarking on a journey of healing at the side of a blocked writer and a lovelorn chef. - Random House, Inc.
Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. But can he fix his own?
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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 countryâs 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.
