Browse - The World in 15 Bookshops

Zusatztext  "Lives up to its inviting title." -  Times Literary Supplement  "Very worthwhile but not too worthy! this is a timely call to arms." -  Monocle  'All these writers convey the magic of bookshops! while also making their vulnerability in recent times a recurrent theme.' - Guardian 'If you have ever lost yourself in a bookshop! felt the world fall away as you took a book off the shelves! this spell-binding collection will carry you off to shops near! far! lost and imagined.' - Mail on Sunday 'Everywhere bookshops are fast disappearing. Sixteen writers from around the world remind us why we should cherish them at all costs.' - Spectator 'In celebrating bookshops! Browse heralds humanity! with all its glorious eccentricities.' - Country Life Informationen zum Autor Henry Hitchings is an award-winning writer! reviewer and critic. He has written for the Guardian ! London Review of Books ! TLS ! Financial Times and New Statesman ! and is currently the Evening Standard 's theatre critic. He is the author of several acclaimed books on language! literature and culture! including Dr Johnson's Dictionary ! How to Really Talk About Books You Haven't Read and The Language Wars . In 2008! he was shortlisted for the title of Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year! and in the same year his book The Secret Life of Words won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. Klappentext The world in 15 bookshops. This is an anthology, edited and introduced by writer and critic Henry Hitchings, of essays by award-winning international writers to celebrate one of our most essential institutions: the bookshop. Contributors include Ian Samson, Daniel Kehlmann, Ali Smith and Andrey Kurkov. A salute to the greatest kind of shop in the world, by a stellar cast of writers including Ali Smith, Andrey Kurkov, Pankaj Mishra and Daniel Kehlmann From time to time over the past few years I’ve done volunteer stints a few hours a week selling books at our local Amnesty International second-hand bookshop, Books for Amnesty. I live in a university town in the south of England and the book donations that come in, sometimes seven or eight in a plastic bag, sometimes a whole vanful, a house clearance, someone’s whole library, are endlessly interesting, tend towards the eclectic and are almost always unexpected repositories of the lives they’ve been so close to. Open this copy of Ballerinas of Sadler’s Wells (A. & C. Black Ltd, 1954) with its still bright-orange-after-sixty- years cover and its black and white photo of Margot Fonteyn on the front, its original price of six shillings on the back (now selling at £2). In blue ink on its first page, in neat child’s handwriting: Christmas 1954 To Caroline From Christopher . Tucked in beside this there’s a postcard of a swaggering tabby cat wearing a collar, and written on the back of it in an adult hand in faded blue, DARLING CAROLINE, PLEASE do send me a list of things you would like to have so that I can have some help to find YOU a birthday present. I shall be stopping at LIZZIE’S next week so please tell Nannie that my address will be Trumpeter’s House. Lots of love xx from Mamma xxxxx I thought Papa’s present from you lovely. Or inside The Book of the Art of Cennino Cennini (Allen and Unwin, 1930) a ticket, single, dated 20th July 1936, Chatham and District Traction Company. Or inside an American first edition of The Buck in the Snow by Edna St Vincent Millay (Harpers and Brothers, 1928) a business card for Miss Katzenberger’s Piano ...

List of contents

C o n t e n t s

Introduction: A Place to Pause
Henry Hitchings

Bookshop Time
Ali Smith

Something that Doesn't Exist
Andrey Kurkov

The Pillars of Hercules
Ian Sansom

A Tale of Two Bookshops
Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Leitner and I
Sasa Stanisic

All that Offers a Happy Ending Is a Fairy Tale
Yiyun Li

If You Wound a Snake...
Alaa Al Aswany

Desiderium: The Accidental Bookshop of Nairobi
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Snow Day
Michael Dirda

Dussmann: A Conversation
Daniel Kehlmann

La Palmaverde
Stefano Benni

A Bookshop in the Age of Progress
Pankaj Mishra

Intimacy
Dorthe Nors

Bohemia Road
Iain Sinclair

My Homeland Is Storyland
Elif Shafak

Writers' Biographies

Translators' Biographies

Report

"Lives up to its inviting title." - Times Literary Supplement

"Very worthwhile but not too worthy, this is a timely call to arms." - Monocle
'All these writers convey the magic of bookshops, while also making their vulnerability in recent times a recurrent theme.' - Guardian

'If you have ever lost yourself in a bookshop, felt the world fall away as you took a book off the shelves, this spell-binding collection will carry you off to shops near, far, lost and imagined.' - Mail on Sunday

'Everywhere bookshops are fast disappearing. Sixteen writers from around the world remind us why we should cherish them at all costs.' - Spectator

'In celebrating bookshops, Browse heralds humanity, with all its glorious eccentricities.' - Country Life

Product details

• Authors: Henry Hitchings, N/A
• Assisted by: Henr Hitchings (Editor), Henry Hitchings (Editor)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781782272120
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-212-0
• No. of pages: 253
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 205 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works