**A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of *The Cleaner of Chartres*** Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as a children's librarian. But the apparently plea
The Librarian
β Scribed by Mikhail Elizarov
- Book ID
- 112878831
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 266 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781782270843
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
If Ryu Murakami had written War and Peace
As the introduction to this book will tell you, the books by Gromov, obscure and long forgotten propaganda author of the Soviet era, have such an effect on their readers that they suddenly enjoy supernatural powers. Understandably, their readers need to keep accessing these books at all cost and gather into groups around book-bearers, or, as they're called, librarians. Alexei, until now a loser, comes to collect an uncle's inheritance and unexpectedly becomes a librarian. He tells his extraordinary, unbelievable story.
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