It is through these pages that we come to know Manon. Parallel to Jean Perdu’s narrative, the readers will come across a few entries from Manon’s travel diaries. What he finds is not what he expected and immediately regrets not reading it all those years ago. Overwhelmed by being close to someone after years, Perdu opens the letter and reads it.

The two start talking about their lives and their pasts, and one thing leads to another. Peru has not opened the letter from Manon for twenty years.Ĭatherine asks Perdu if he wants to read the letter with her and invites him over for dinner. However, Catherine forces him to open the letter, or otherwise, she will. Upon receiving, Perdu denies it and refuses to read it. In the kitchen table, Catherine finds an unopened letter and gives it to Perdu.

To help her, Perdu brings her an old table. Catherine, a heartbroken woman herself, is left by her husband with nothing but her clothes. You can’t lock them away and hope they leave you alone.”Ī new neighbor comes into the building. He lives a mundane life that revolves around his bookshop and stays away from any real human connections. He escapes from the truth and reality that the woman he loved left him for another lover. Jean Perdu seems to be a man who could not face his lover’s abandonment. And some…well, some are pink candy floss that tingles in your brain for three seconds and leaves a blissful voice. Some novels are loving, lifelong companions some give you a clip around the ear others are friends who wrap you in warm towels when you’ve got those autumn blues. To him, the room haunts him of his long lost love, Manon, and the relationship that they shared. We meet him first at his apartment, opening the door to a room that has been shut for years. But the one heart he has not been able to cure is his. His book medication helps people and is often known to mend broken hearts. He is famously known as the literary pharmacist, who prescribes his customers the book that they need rather than the one that they want. It is a book barge harbored on the river Seine in Paris and goes by the name Lulu. He runs a floating bookshop called the Literary Apothecary. The other tenants adore him and keep trying to communicate with him. Jean Perdu is fifty years old and lives in an apartment building. This is a story of lost love, forgiveness, finding oneself, and the beautiful picturesque scenes of France. The book is set in Paris along the Seine river, where you will be exposed to books, food, and wine. Since the translation in English, it has become prevalent among the book reading community.

The Little Paris Bookshop was initially written in German and has recently been translated.

The little paris bookshop characters