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Feb 3rd, 2017, 12:09 am
The Island of Books by Dominique Fortier (Translated by Rhonda Mullins)
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Overview: A fifteenth-century portrait painter, grieving the untimely death of his unrequited love, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, an island off the coast of France. He haunts the halls until the monks assign him the task of copying manuscripts – though he is illiterate. His work heals him and grows the monastery's library into a beautiful city of books, all under the shadow of the invention of the printing press.
Genre: Literary Fiction

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Feb 3rd, 2017, 12:09 am

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