Browse: The World in Bookshops - Couverture rigide

Smith, Ali; Li, Yiyun; Mishra, Pankaj; Aswany, Alaa Al; Dirda, Michael; Sinclair, Iain; Sansom, Ian; Kehlmann, Daniel; Kurkov, Andrey; Nors, Dorthe; Stanišic, Saša; Benni, Stefano; Vásquez, Juan Gabriel; Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1782272127 ISBN 13 : 9781782272120

Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2016

Synopsis

A celebration of bookshops around the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including Ali Smith, Pankaj Mishra, Elif Shafak and Daniel Kehlmann

In Browse Henry Hitchings asks fifteen writers from around the world to consider the bookshops that have shaped them; each conjures a specific time and place.

Ali Smith chronicles the secrets and personal stories hidden within the pages of secondhand books; Alaa Al Aswany tells of the Cairo bookshop where revolutionaries gathered during the 2011 uprisings; Elif Shafak evokes the bookstores of Istanbul, their chaos and diversity, their aroma of tobacco and coffee. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor recalls the quandary of being asked to choose just one book at a favourite childhood store in Nairobi, while Iain Sinclair shares his grief on witnessing a beloved old haunt close down. Others explore bookshops they have stumbled upon, adored and become addicted to, from London to Bogotá.

These inquisitive, enchanting pieces are a collective celebration of bookshops - for anyone who has ever fallen under their spell.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Ali Smith is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her novels include The Accidental, There but for the and, most recently, How to Be Both, winner of the 2014 Costa Novel Award. She was born in Scotland and now lives in Cambridge.

Yiyun Li (b. 1972) is a prize-winning short story writer and novelist. Named by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists in 2007, her work has won her the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, The PEN/Hemingway Award and the California Book Award. She lives and teaches in California.

Dorthe Nors is one of Denmark's most distinctive contemporary writers and the first Danish author to be published in The New Yorker. Her work has appeared in numerous international publications including Harper's, The Guardian, the BBC and more. Nors is the author of several acclaimed books including Karate Chop (winner of the P.O. Enquist Literary Prize), Minna Needs Rehearsal Space, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal-shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize-and Wild Swims, all published in English by Pushkin Press. Her recent nonfiction A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for nature writing. Born in rural Jutland, she now lives by the North Sea coast.

The award-winning novelist Saša Stanišic was born in Visegrad, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1978 and has lived in Germany since 1992. His debut novel How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone was acclaimed by readers and critics alike, and has been translated into 30 languages so far. Before the Feast, his second novel, won the 2014 Leipzig Book Fair Prize, was longlisted for the German Book Prize, and won the Alfred-Döblin and Hohenemser literary prizes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782272127
• ISBN 13: 9781782272120
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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