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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Language
English
Description
A beautifully transporting novel capturing the romantic sweep of the twentieth century-- from Toronto in the '20s and '30s through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Rome and Florence. Born in 1916, Henry, thin-as-sticks and nearsighted, is an obsessive doodler who shamelessly copies illustrations from his Boys Own magazines. Left in the care of a nurturing, no-nonsense, Shakespeare-quoting, cardsharp grandmother, Henry receives as a gift...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Language
English
Description
From the author of internationally acclaimed novel "The End of the Alphabet," the magical story of an unlikely romance between an illiterate Parisian baker and a woman with her head permanently buried in a book. The two might never have met, but through a curious chain of coincidences involving a mysterious traveller, an impoverished painter, a jaded bookseller, and a book of fairytales, they will.