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The readers of Broken Wheel recommend / Katarina Bivald ; translated from Swedish by Alice Menzies.

Summary:

It all began with a correspondence between two quite different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy from the small town of Broken Wheel, Iowa. After years of exchanging books, letters and thoughts on the meaning of literature and life, Sara, mousy, disheveled, who has never been anywhere in her life -- has really lived only for her work in a beloved bookshop, which has just closed its doors for the last time -- bravely decides to accept her unknown friend's invitation to visit. But when she arrives, she finds her house empty, the funeral guests just heading home... Sara finds herself alone. And what choice do the inhabitants of Broken Wheel have but to take care of their bewildered tourist? And what choice does Sara have, faced with a town where nobody reads and her desire to honour her friend, but to set up the perfect bookshop with all the books she and Amy share d-- from Yann Martel's Life of Pi to Iris Murdoch and Jo Nesbo, to Bridget Jones and Doug Coupland's All Families Are Psychotic to Little House on the Prairie? And then watch as the townsfolk are, one by one, transformed in unexpected ways...

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385683593 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 376 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: [Toronto] : Bond Street Books, c2015.

Content descriptions

Language Note:
Translated from the Swedish.
Subject: Pen pals > Death > Fiction.
Life change events > Fiction.
Swedes > Iowa > Fiction.
Women booksellers > Fiction.
Bookstores > Fiction.
Booksellers and bookselling > Fiction.
Books and reading > Fiction.
Small town life > Fiction.
Iowa > Fiction.
Genre: Swedish fiction > Translations into English.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Camosun College Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Interurban Library PAPERBACK (Text) 26040003270580 Recreational Reading Volume hold Available -
Lansdowne Library PAPERBACK (Text) 26040003270572 Recreational Reading Volume hold Available -


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