The little Paris bookshop : a novel / Nina George ; translated by Simon Pare.
By: George, Nina
Language: English Original language: German Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, 2015Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 392 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780553418774Subject(s): Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction | Books and reading -- Fiction | Mental healing -- Fiction | Paris (France) -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Romance fiction.Summary: 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.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Originally published in Germany as Das Lavendelzimmer by Knaur Verlag in 2013.
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.