The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

Jean owns a bookshop, housed in a barge on the River Seine.

Max has repeatedly tried to befriend Jean, only to be rebuffed by the reserved Frenchman. There is the blind chiropodist Che and the claustrophobic pianist Clara Violette, but the biggest nuisance to Jean is Max Jordan, a hip, earmuff-wearing American novelist who is hiding out in Paris to escape the furor over his bestselling first novel. Jean Perdu lives in an apartment block in Paris’s Marais district, where he is friendly but distant with a whole host of eccentric neighbors. Described as “a charming novel that believes in the healing properties of fiction, romance, and a summer in the south of France” ( Kirkus Reviews), The Little Paris Bookshop was generally well-received by critics, although some reviewers found it somewhat slight and excessively similar to Joanne Harris’s Chocolat. Upon publication, the book quickly became an international bestseller, with more than half a million copies sold in twenty-eight languages. ( From the publisher.The Little Paris Bookshop (2015), a novel by German author and journalist Nina George, follows “Literary Apothecary” Jean Perdu as he sets off in his barge-cum-bookstore to heal the wounds of a long-lost love, collecting a family of misfits along the way. Internationally bestselling and filled with warmth and adventure, The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country’s rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself.

She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.Īfter Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls.

From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart.

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George