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Title Statement | The bookshop of the broken hearted [largetype] / Robert Hillman. |
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Series | Thorndike Press large print core series |
Author | Hillman, Robert, 1948- |
Publication | Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press,2019.©2018 |
Edition | Large print edition. |
Extent of Item | 417 pages. |
ISBN | 1432863223 9781432863227 |
Other Number | 3616242 |
Summary | It is 1968 in rural Australia and young Tom Hope is doing his best. In love with the land, but not much of a farmer, it's when his wife becomes pregnant--though by another man--that Tom finds true fulfilment in the role of a father. When inevitably his wife leaves, taking little Peter with her, Tom is heartbroken. Enter Hannah Babel, quixotic smalltown bookseller: the second Jewish person--and the most vivid woman--Tom has ever met. Hannah has opened the town's first bookshop, filling its shelves with all the darkness and light of post-war Europe. Tom dares to believe they could make each other happy, but Hannah is a haunted woman. Twenty-four years ago she and her own little boy had arrived at Auschwitz. About learning to make peace with evils both great and small, The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted is gorgeously written, gentle-spirited, and wise, sharing a hopeful story of unexpected love and second chances. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Holocaust survivors--Fiction |
Farmers--Fiction | |
Bookstores--Fiction | |
Large type books | |
By Location | Australia--Fiction--History--20th century |
By Genre | Love stories |
Historical fiction |