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Browse Author: Ali Smith

ISBN: 9781782272120 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 224 Published: 23 November 2016 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 20.5 x 13.7 x 2.5 Description: A salute to the greatest kind of shop in the world, by a stellar cast of writers including Ali Smith, Andrey Kurkov, Pankaj Mishra and Daniel Kehlmann

Edited and introduced by the writer and critic Henry Hitchings, these fearless, passionate, inquiring essays by award-winning international writers celebrate one of our most essential, but endangered, institutions: the bookshop. From Denmark to Egypt, from the USA to China, Browse brings together some of the world's leading authors to investigate bookshops both in general and in particular - the myriad pleasures, puzzles and possibilities they disclose.The fifteen essays reflect their authors' own inimitable style - romantic, elegant, bold, argumentative, poetic or whimsical - as they ask probing questions about the significance, the cultural and social (even political) function as well as the physical qualities of the institution, and examine our very personal relationship to it. Contributors include:
Alaa Al Aswany (Egypt)
Stefano Benni (Italy)
Michael Dirda (USA)
Daniel Kehlmann (Germany) <...

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