The Island of Books

In the golden age of its library, Mont-Saint-Michel was known as the City of Books. There, behind the grey walls of the abbey, a painter haunted by the memory of the woman he loved found refuge in the fifteenth century. There too, between sky and sea, a novelist still looking for the land of books meets him five hundred years later, on the pages of a notebook forgotten in the rain. Part novel and part writer's notebook, the book is a tribute to books and to those who make them.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

176 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

France, 15th century and present day

First published

2015 by Éditions Alto

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9782896942251 (original)

9781552453384 (Coach House Books, Canada)