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"Bookshops is the best kind of biblio-mystery, in which a cultivated and civilized detective guides us through the labyrinth of the world's stores, stopping to talk for a while, before plunging off on the next fascinating diversion. Jorge Carrion brings page-turning... Read Full Overview

What is the significance of bookshops in the collective imagination? In this brilliant and accessible essay, Jorge Carrin creates a possible chronology of the development of books. How do they become cultural myths, centers of intellectual conversation, or fortresses of political... Read Full Overview

"Bookshops is the best kind of biblio-mystery, in which a cultivated and civilized detective guides us through the labyrinth of the world's stores, stopping to talk for a while, before plunging off on the next fascinating diversion. Jorge Carrion brings page-turning... Read Full Overview

"With this book our empowerment began," said bookseller Lola Larumbe. "Indeed, the publication of Librerías in 2013 created a narrative that did not exist: that of the importance of bookstores and booksellers in the history of culture. Translated into fifteen languages.

"Bookshops is the best kind of biblio-mystery, in which a cultivated and civilized detective guides us through the labyrinth of the world's stores, stopping to talk for a while, before plunging off on the next fascinating diversion. Jorge Carrion brings page-turning... Read Full Overview