![]() Jean owns a bookshop, housed in a barge on the River Seine. ![]() ![]() Max has repeatedly tried to befriend Jean, only to be rebuffed by the reserved Frenchman. There is the blind chiropodist Che and the claustrophobic pianist Clara Violette, but the biggest nuisance to Jean is Max Jordan, a hip, earmuff-wearing American novelist who is hiding out in Paris to escape the furor over his bestselling first novel. ![]() 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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