The readers of Broken Wheel recommend / Katarina Bivald ; translated from Swedish by Alice Menzies.
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 shared--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 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 376 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : Bond Street Books, [2015]
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Language Note: | Translated from the Swedish. |
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Subject: | Pen pals > Death > Fiction. Swedes > Iowa > Fiction. Bookstores > Iowa > Fiction. Books and reading > Fiction. City and town life > Iowa > Fiction. Iowa > Fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Creston Public Library | FIC BIV (Text)
Acquisition Type: New |
35140900006084 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Kaslo and District Public Library | AF BIV (Text) | 35134000432126 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Sparwood Public Library | FIC BIV (Text) | 35172000195079 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |