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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. Contributors include:Alaa Al Aswany (Egypt) Stefano Benni (Italy) Michael Dirda (USA) Daniel Kehlmann (Germany) Andrey Kurkov (Ukraine) Yiyun Li (China) Pankaj Mishra (India) Dorthe Nors (Denmark) Elif Shafak (Turkey) Ian Sansom (UK) Iain Sinclair (UK) Ali Smith (UK) Saša Stanišic (Germany/Bosnia) Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Colombia)

Table of Contents:
C o n t e n t s

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…
Alaa 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

About the Author :
Henry Hitchings is an award-winning writer, reviewer and critic. He has written for the Guardian, London Review of Books, TLS, Financial Times and New Statesman, and is currently the Evening Standard's theatre critic. He is the author of several acclaimed books on language, literature and culture, including Dr Johnson's Dictionary, How to Really Talk About Books You Haven't Read and The Language Wars. In 2008, he was shortlisted for the title of Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and in the same year his book The Secret Life of Words won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award.

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All these writers convey the magic of bookshops, while also making their vulnerability in recent times a recurrent theme If you have ever lost yourself in a bookshop, felt the world fall away as you took a book off the shelves, this spell-binding collection will carry you off to shops near, far, lost and imagined Everywhere bookshops are fast disappearing. Sixteen writers from around the world remind us why we should cherish them at all costs Lives up to its inviting title Very worthwhile but not too worthy, this is a timely call to arms In celebrating bookshops, Browse heralds humanity, with all its glorious eccentricities A book guaranteed to reawaken anyone's passion for all things bookish A book for all those who love books and the shops that sell them I advise you to pick up this book as soon as you can Browse is compulsive reading, offering unusual insights into the role bookshops play in our lives


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781782272120
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pushkin Press
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Sub Title: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World
  • ISBN-10: 1782272127
  • Publisher Date: 06 Oct 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 129 mm


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