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. 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.
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