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Book SynopsisA lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrión 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 en
