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Bookshops (Paperback)
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Bookshops (Paperback)
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List price R315
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"A lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the
world: Jorge Carrion has gone and visited them all. We can't travel
right now, but we can travel in books." MARGARET ATWOOD Why do
bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In
this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge
Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its
bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris,
Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie
des Colonnes in Tangier, the Strand Book Store in New York and
provoke encounters with thinkers, poets, dreamers, revolutionaries
and readers. Bookshops is the travelogue of a lucid and curious
observer, filled with anecdotes and stories from the universe of
writing, publishing and selling books. A bookshop in Carrion's eyes
never just a place for material transaction; it is a meeting place
for people and their ideas, a setting for world changing
encounters, a space that can transform lives. Written in the midst
of a worldwide recession, Bookshops examines the role of these
spaces in today's evershifting climate of globalisation, vanishing
high streets, e-readers and Amazon. But far from taking a
pessimistic view of the future of the physical bookshop, Carrion
makes a compelling case for hope, underlining the importance of
these places and the magic that can happen there. A vital manifesto
for the future of the traditional bookshop, and a delight for all
who love them. Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush
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