Browse : love letters to bookshops around the world
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Browse : love letters to bookshops around the world
AUTHOR:
Hitchings, Henry, 1974-
ISBN:
9781782272960
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Pushkin Press, c2016.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
253 p. ; 20 cm
CONTENTS:
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 / Saša Stanišić -- All that offers a happy ending is a fairy tale / Yiyun Li -- If you wound a snake ... / Alla 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.
ABSTRACT:
Edited and introduced by the writer and critic Henry Hitchings, these fearless, passionate, inquiring essays by award-winning international writers celebrate one of our most essential, but endangered, institutions: the bookshop. From Denmark to Egypt, from the USA to China, Browse brings together some of the world's leading authors to investigate bookshops both in general and in particular - the myriad pleasures, puzzles and possibilities they disclose. The fifteen essays reflect their authors' own inimitable style - romantic, elegant, bold, argumentative, poetic or whimsical - as they ask probing questions about the significance, the cultural and social (even political) function as well as the physical qualities of the institution, and examine our very personal relationship to it.
SUBJECT:
| Bookstores. |
| Books and reading. |
BIBSUMMARY:
Edited and introduced by the writer and critic Henry Hitchings, these fearless, passionate, inquiring essays by award-winning international writers celebrate one of our most essential, but endangered, institutions: the bookshop. From Denmark to Egypt, from the USA to China, Browse brings together some of the world's leading authors to investigate bookshops both in general and in particular - the myriad pleasures, puzzles and possibilities they disclose. The fifteen essays reflect their authors' own inimitable style - romantic, elegant, bold, argumentative, poetic or whimsical - as they ask probing questions about the significance, the cultural and social (even political) function as well as the physical qualities of the institution, and examine our very personal relationship to it.