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A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter-and, most urgently, a manifesto.
Info autore
Jorge Carrión's
Bookshops: A Reader's History, published by Biblioasis in 2017, was universally acclaimed and has appeared in thirteen languages. He is the author of three novels, including
Los muertos, which won the 2011 Festival de Chambéry Prize for best first novel in Spanish. Carrión's journalism appears in the Spanish-language edition of the
New York Times and many other newspapers in Europe and the Americas. He lives in Barcelona, where he is the director of the creative writing program at Pompeu Fabra University.
Peter Bush's recent translations include Teresa Solana's
The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories, his selection of
Barcelona Tales, and Quim Monzó's
Why, Why, Why? In press are Josep Pla's
Salt Water and Juan Francisco de Dios Hernández's
Leonardo Balada: A Transatlantic Gaze; in process, Balzac's
The Lily in the Valley and Najat El Hachmi's
Mother of Milk and Honey. He lives in Oxford, UK.
Riassunto
A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter—and, most urgently, a manifesto.
Prefazione
Print run 5000 Co-op available Advance reader copies North American TV & radio campaign: NPR Fresh Air, Weekend Edition, All Things Considered National print campaign: Booklist, Foreword, Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness; Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, New Yorker, New York Times, New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post; The Atlantic, The Believer, Bookforum, Elle, Glamour, Harper’s, Los Angeles Review of Books, Marie Clare, Ms., O Magazine, Time, Vogue Online and social media campaign: pitch reviews and interviews to Book Riot, Brooklyn Rail, Bustle, Electric Literature, Flavorwire, Jezebel, Largehearted Boy, Lit Hub, New Yorker Book Bench, New York Review of Books, NPR.org, NPR Books, Quarterly Conversation, Slate, Salon, Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Giveaways through Edelweiss, Facebook, Goodreads, Twitter, Instagram. E-book available same date as print edition, e-book ISBN included on press materials and websites and promoted via social media Excerpts in Lit Hub, Electric Lit • Indie Next campaign
Testo aggiuntivo
Praise for Jorge Carrión’s Bookshops: A Reader’s History
“The perfect merging of love of travel and literature.”—Buzzfeed
“[Carrión’s] purpose is to celebrate bookstores. And he does so by wandering the globe in search of those that play—or have played—a special role in the intellectual and social lives of their communities. They become Carrión’s personal mappa mundi.”—New York Times
“‘Every bookshop is a condensed version of the world,’ begins Mr. Carrión’s literary and unabashedly sentimental exploration of bookstores around the globe . . . [Carrion] wanders through volume-laden aisles in Athens, Paris, Bratislava, Budapest, Tangier and Sydney, and invokes many other shops, both open and closed, telling stories about writers, readers and literary circles . . . By the end, you may feel poorly read—but well armed with titles and bookshops to visit on your own.” —Wall Street Journal
“Carrión explores the fine lines between pilgrimage destination, touristy gimmick, and decent bookshop. This is the perfect book for those who feel compelled to visit every bookstore they see.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
“Excellent . . . entertaining . . . this quietly intelligent little book speaks volumes.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post
“Sublimely entrancing . . . brilliant . . . [Carrión’s] Borgesian book—it can be opened at any point and read forward, or backwards for that matter—is not at all sad. To read is to travel in time and space, and to travel from bookshop to bookshop is an ecstatic experience for Carrión, a joy he conveys page after page.”— Maclean’s
