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The Library of Paris Author: Janet Skyler Charles Publisher: CITIC Press
The Library of Paris Author: Janet Skyler Charles Publisher: CITIC Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
In the late 1930s, Odile, a girl who lived in a middle-class family in Paris and loved reading, applied for a job as a librarian at the American Library in Paris with her love for books. Although she had real troubles from life and growth, she also gained friendship and love. After the Nazis occupied Paris, Odile and her colleagues who were both teachers and friends did their best to maintain the operation of the library, just to provide the last spiritual shelter for the people of Paris. However, the subsequent changes made Odile's life fall apart, and she had to leave her hometown...
In the 1980s, in the small town of Freud, Montana, the girl Lily faced the distress of adolescence: her mother's death made her suddenly face the separation of life and death, her father's remarriage made her feel at a loss about the new family relationship, and the social pressure from her peers turned the campus into a Shura field...
One afternoon, Lily, a young girl trapped in a tedious and mediocre life, accidentally broke into the home of Odile, who lived alone, and accidentally prevented a suicide. Since then, the life trajectories of two women from different cultural backgrounds have intertwined, composing a history of spiritual growth spanning half a century.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Janet Skeslien Charles
A highly regarded emerging novelist in the United States, he grew up in Montana and spent nearly 10 years wandering and researching in the streets and libraries of Paris.
Her debut novel, Moonlight in Odessa, is about "online bride shopping", and won the British "Melissa Nathan Love Comedy Novel Award" and the French Strasbourg "National Book Award", and has been translated into 10 languages. Other short stories have been included in short story anthologies such as "Slices" and "Black Montana".
From 2010 to 2012, she worked as a project manager at the Bibliothèque Americana in Paris, where she began researching her second novel, The Library of Paris, and was also responsible for planning the weekly "Author's Night" event, inviting many well-known writers to speak. She was also responsible for coordinating reading clubs, updating social media, writing promotional materials, and writing articles for the Biblioteca América Paris's journal, Reading for Joy.
After the publication of "Paris Library" in 2020, it received rave reviews from all over the world and sold copyrights in 28 languages including English, American, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese and Spanish. She currently teaches at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
