A review by santreads
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

5.0

I feel as though this book has entered my soul and left an impression on me.

It wasn't just the plot, the story, the prose - it was everything. The thoughts that resonated in the books, I felt as though I had thought them too but just never were they so eloquently put out on pieces of paper.

The story is of Perdu - a bookseller who sells books on barge (a flat bottomed boat) as a medicine for the smallest to the largest of inflictions. I'm a strong believer that books can heal, so this really spoke to me. Perdu, 20 years ago, was spurned by his lover and he till date carries that weight around with him. That is till Catherine moves to his apartment building.

On his meddling neighbours insistence, he gives Catherine a table - a table that carries a letter from his lover which he has forgotten. Catherine reads it and then goes ahead and makes Perdu finally shed his anger and read it too.

His lover had cancer and that is why she left

. He goes into a tizzy and the next day when he's in his book barge, decides to set sail. Max, another neighbour and a recently celebrated young writer, also jumps in and decides to make the journey with him.

What follows is an adventure that brings him to dance, eat, read and find himself.