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. if that makes any sense.the language is a big part of the flowing river, flowing emotions thing going on in the story.Description Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. Dealing with voices from the past, and enjoying some wonderful scenery along the way.and Nina pulls the threads together for a charming ending.I read it in English translation that didn't feel like a translation at all, totally natural English, just flowed, I'm anxious now to read the German to find out why it was so natural in English.
There's a diary from the woman he once shared and loved.Settles with the past and finds his present.there are plenty of serious subjects here, basically life and death, so not really frivolous, but done with a light touch. He opens a letter he should have read 20 years ago. Gallen library, in Greek, translated in German as Seelenapotheke. Even the concept of an apothecary for the soul is somewhat Germanic, it is the inscription over the St. The references to authors are heavy on the Rilke side.
The book takes place in France, but it is very German. A floating bookshop with a bookseller who's specialty is finding the right book for what ails you, just can't find one for himself.he's writing an encyclopedia of emotions that need to be defined.he's trying to get over a lover from 20 years ago.(one reviewer finds that hard to believe.) anyway he has an apothecary for the soul.
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