The Library of Unrequited Love
Author(s): Sophie Divry
One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight.
She begins to talk to him, a one-way conversation full of sharp insight and quiet outrage. As she rails against snobbish senior colleagues, an ungrateful and ignorant public, the strictures of the Dewey Decimal System and the sinister expansionist conspiracies of the books themselves, two things shine through: her unrequited passion for a researcher named Martin, and an ardent and absolute love for the arts.
A delightful divertissement for the discerning bookworm...
General Information
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- : Quercus
- : MacLehose Press
- : 0.08
- : 01 January 2014
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 July 2014
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Sophie Divry
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : en
- : 96
More About The Product
'It's funny, sad, and agreeably discursive ... There isn't a dull page or even a dull sentence ... In short, this is a very accomplished and delightful debut' Allan Massie, Scotsman. 'We're in Anita Brookner territory here ... Sophie Divry brilliantly captures the voice of a frustrated lady librarian past her prime' Katie Law, Evening Standard.
Sophie Divry lives in Lyon, France. The Library of Unrequited Love is her first novel. Sian Reynolds is the translator of Fernand Braudel, of CWA award-winning crime novels by Fred Vargas, and of Jacques Bonnet's Phantoms on the Bookshelves.
