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The World in Bookshops
(Sprache: Englisch)
A celebration of the greatest kind of shop in the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including Ali Smith, Michael Dirda, Elif Shafak and Daniel Kehlmann.
A cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove - we love bookshops because they...
A cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove - we love bookshops because they...
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A celebration of the greatest kind of shop in the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including Ali Smith, Michael Dirda, Elif Shafak and Daniel Kehlmann.A cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove - we love bookshops because they possess a unique kind of magic. In Browse, Henry Hitchings asks fifteen writers from around the world to reveal their favourite bookshops, each conjuring a specific time and place. These inquisitive, enchanting pieces are a collective celebration of bookshops - for anyone who has ever fallen under their spell. Contributors include Alaa Al Aswany, Stefano Benni, Michael Dirda, Daniel Kehlmann, Andrey Kurkov, Yiyun Li, Pankaj Mishra, Dorthe Nors, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Elif Shafak, Ian Sansom, Iain Sinclair, Ali Smith, Sasa Stanisic, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez.
A dazzling collection of original essays about the bookshop by fifteen bestselling international authors.
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From time to time over the past few years I've donevolunteer stints a few hours a week selling books
at our local Amnesty International second-hand
bookshop, Books for Amnesty. I live in a university town
in the south of England and the book donations that come
in, sometimes seven or eight in a plastic bag, sometimes a
whole vanful, a house clearance, someone's whole library,
are endlessly interesting, tend towards the eclectic and are
almost always unexpected repositories of the lives they've
been so close to.
Open this copy of Ballerinas of Sadler's Wells (A. &
C. Black Ltd, 1954) with its still bright-orange-after-sixty-
years cover and its black and white photo of Margot
Fonteyn on the front, its original price of six shillings on
the back (now selling at £2). In blue ink on its first page,
in neat child's handwriting: Christmas 1954 To Caroline
From Christopher. Tucked in beside this there's a postcard
of a swaggering tabby cat wearing a collar, and written on
the back of it in an adult hand in faded blue, DARLING
CAROLINE, PLEASE do send me a list of things you
would like to have so that I can have some help to find
YOU a birthday present. I shall be stopping at LIZZIE'S
next week so please tell Nannie that my address will be
Trumpeter's House. Lots of love xx from Mamma xxxxx
I thought Papa's present from you lovely.
Or inside The Book of the Art of Cennino Cennini
(Allen and Unwin, 1930) a ticket, single, dated 20th July
1936, Chatham and District Traction Company.
Or inside an American first edition of The Buck in the
Snow by Edna St Vincent Millay (Harpers and Brothers,
1928) a business card for Miss Katzenberger's Piano
Lessons and an address in Queens, New York.
We leave ourselves in our books via this seeming detritus:
cigarette cards with pictures of trees or wildlife; receipts
for the chemist; opera or concert or theatre tickets; rail
or tram or bus tickets from all the decades; photographs
of places and
... mehr
long-gone dogs and cats and holidays; once
even a photo of someone's Cortina. Now when I donate
books to the shop I have a flick through to make sure that
anything tucked into them isn't something I might mind
losing.
The volunteers, like the books, are of all ages and all
lifewalks. They all have some things in common; they're
doing this for nothing, for Amnesty, most of them because
they really love books, many of them because they love the
shop, and all of them because they're community-minded.
It's quiet in there, browsy, passers-by getting out of the
rain, regulars who love the place and know that its stock
can be curiously timely-it's not unusual to hear someone
exclaim out loud at finding just the book she needs or
he's been looking for all this time-and the occasional
rogue, like the slightly drunk man who chatted to me for
a bit at the cash desk then said, as he left: I was actually
planning on shoplifting from here but since you're Scottish
I won't. I called after him as he went out the door: If
you're going to shoplift don't do it from a charity shop,
for God's sake. He gave me a wave and a smile through
the window.
Here are some of the things he could've lifted that
day. A Leonard Woolf novel called Sowing, signed inside
Elizabeth from Leonard, Christmas 1962 (the Leonard who
wrote it?). Another Leonard, a biography of Bernstein,
definitely signed by the actual Leonard himself in a sloping
hand. A copy of Axel Munthe's The Story of San Michele,
signed and dedicated by Munthe to Lady Astor. A ragged
copy of A Girl Like I by Anita Loos, in which someone
has scrawled in claw-hand on the first page, pArts Of tHis
boOk are VERy sAD.
For every book I donate myself-and this is the problem
with a shop like this-a new-bought old
even a photo of someone's Cortina. Now when I donate
books to the shop I have a flick through to make sure that
anything tucked into them isn't something I might mind
losing.
The volunteers, like the books, are of all ages and all
lifewalks. They all have some things in common; they're
doing this for nothing, for Amnesty, most of them because
they really love books, many of them because they love the
shop, and all of them because they're community-minded.
It's quiet in there, browsy, passers-by getting out of the
rain, regulars who love the place and know that its stock
can be curiously timely-it's not unusual to hear someone
exclaim out loud at finding just the book she needs or
he's been looking for all this time-and the occasional
rogue, like the slightly drunk man who chatted to me for
a bit at the cash desk then said, as he left: I was actually
planning on shoplifting from here but since you're Scottish
I won't. I called after him as he went out the door: If
you're going to shoplift don't do it from a charity shop,
for God's sake. He gave me a wave and a smile through
the window.
Here are some of the things he could've lifted that
day. A Leonard Woolf novel called Sowing, signed inside
Elizabeth from Leonard, Christmas 1962 (the Leonard who
wrote it?). Another Leonard, a biography of Bernstein,
definitely signed by the actual Leonard himself in a sloping
hand. A copy of Axel Munthe's The Story of San Michele,
signed and dedicated by Munthe to Lady Astor. A ragged
copy of A Girl Like I by Anita Loos, in which someone
has scrawled in claw-hand on the first page, pArts Of tHis
boOk are VERy sAD.
For every book I donate myself-and this is the problem
with a shop like this-a new-bought old
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Browse “
C o n t e n t sIntroduction: 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
Sasa Stanisic
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
Autoren-Porträt von Ali Smith, Yiyun Li, Pankaj Mishra, Alaa Al Aswany, Michael Dirda, Iain Sinclair, Ian Sansom, Daniel Kehlmann, Andrey Kurkov, Dorthe Nors
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Ali Smith , Yiyun Li , Pankaj Mishra , Alaa Al Aswany , Michael Dirda , Iain Sinclair , Ian Sansom , Daniel Kehlmann , Andrey Kurkov , Dorthe Nors
- 2017, 256 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 20,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Henry Hitchings
- Verlag: Pushkin Press
- ISBN-10: 1782272127
- ISBN-13: 9781782272120
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Lives up to its inviting title." - Times Literary Supplement"Very worthwhile but not too worthy, this is a timely call to arms." - Monocle
'All these writers convey the magic of bookshops, while also making their vulnerability in recent times a recurrent theme.' - Guardian
'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.' - Mail on Sunday
'Everywhere bookshops are fast disappearing. Sixteen writers from around the world remind us why we should cherish them at all costs.' - Spectator
'In celebrating bookshops, Browse heralds humanity, with all its glorious eccentricities.' - Country Life
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