![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Max Jordan is a young author whose debut novel has made him famous. ![]() Things take a turn when two new residents move into Rue Montagnard. For more than 20 years, Perdu has worked hard, but has kept to himself socially, suffering from prolonged sorrow incurred when the great love of his life broke his heart. He's proud of his ability to prescribe the perfect book to remedy "countless, undefined afflictions of the soul" for every reader who crosses his path-customers to whom he sells books on the barge, as well as his apartment neighbors at 27 Rue Montagnard. Fifty-year-old Perdu is meticulous, intuitive, melancholy-a passionate bibliophile who believes that booksellers don't just look after books, they look after people. The narrative centers on Monsieur Jean Perdu, who owns a bookstore called the Literary Apothecary-actually a floating barge "the length of three truck trailers" that houses 8,000 books, moored on the River Seine. Nina George takes readers on a winding river cruise from Paris south through the French countryside in her enchanting The Little Paris Bookshop, a novel that deals with the nature of grief and the power of friendship, love and truth. ![]()
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