What made the experience of listening to The Little Paris Bookshop the most enjoyable? Who can't love Paris, a bookstore, and canal barge #Paris#VividImagary#FantasticTranslation#ABookWrittenToBeReadAloud#tagsgivinc And I definitely will look out for other books translated by Simon Pare. I will not hesitate to read another novel by Nina George. The translation is sensitive and very well done. The thing is, if I realised before my purchase that this book had been translated, I most possibly would not have bought it. And I plan to buy in in paper too so that I can keep it with my other prised books. I first listened to the audio version of the book and loved it so much that I also bought the Kindle version. It is about reawakening and ultimately it is a joyous celebration of the frailty of the heart. It is a tale of the loss of love and the loss of self. Almost every sentence is a sensory delight, laden with insights and truths about the human condition and the beauty of the landscape. If you ever loved deeply and lost that love, if you struggled to love again, this is the book prescription for you. It resonated so deeply with me, that I am tempted to call it my ‘Southern Lights’. I feel that, had I walked into the Literary Apothecary, this is the novel Monsieur Perdu would have prescribed for me.
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