The Bookshop [Paperback] Fitzgerald, Penelope and Nicholls, David

From cover to content.... Fabulous

Florence Green, a kind hearted woman, found her love in a book shop. Though now alone, she wants to open a bookshop in the small town where she lives in.But, will a town that has never had a bookshop accept the presence of one?Hardborough never had a bookshop and Florence, when declared to open one, people became judgemental towards her. Hardborough which was kind of a peaceful place suddenly became a battlefield. A battlefield of varied perspective.The new book shop was an unwelcomed opening in the closed community but, there is a determined lady, there are books. It's Hardborough and the shop is "The Old Book Shop".Personally speaking, I would not say that damn! you will love this book.. its great and whatsoever because by reading it, I very well known that not everyone will end up loving it like I did because, of course different people have different perspective but I would really like to tell you what I like about this one.The story of Ms. Green just pierced my fragile heart. her little part of life where she wanted to open a book shop amused me and the essence it gave me was really very beautiful and overwhelming in its own way. the story went from being funny to being emotional. it felt surreal. it felt like the themes was blended in a perfect proportion due to which it came out so well. it was perfect, short, beautiful and heartbreaking read for me, written in a way to enhance the story much more!!"She ought to go down to the beach. It was Thursday, early closing and it seemed ungrateful to live so close to the sea and never to look at it for weeks on end."

I think most readers, at some point, have dreamt of opening a bookshop. To run a haven for those who seek sanctuary within words. To create an establishment that can offer comfort. In the sleepy little town of Hardborough, widowed Florence Green also desires the same, with the noble intention of doing it for a town that lacked a bookshop. But when this sets her against the powerful Mrs. Gamart, Florence realizes that maybe a town that doesn't have a bookstore doesn't want one either.Things are off from the start. She is encouraged to look elsewhere; the banker is wary of the paperwork; the solicitor hints at the chasm between what's lawful and what's right; and there's also the supernatural 'rapper' that manifests at random, and shakes up the Old House.A lot is left unanswered. Why this sudden desire to start a bookshop? Why is Florence plunging into a business without prior experience? Given that she herself isn't much of a reader, why this venture in particular? What is Mrs. Gamart interested in the Old House, given the rapper? Why is Milo's involvement not questioned?A lot is also left unsaid, in classic British fashion. People's intentions align obliquely with what they say. Milo North's involvement is suspicious from the get-go. Between what is unsaid and what is said but not meant, it is easy to dismiss this novella as pointless. But if you only pause to reflect, you will realize it has implied so much. How life and people can be indifferent in their cruelty. How naivety can hurt someone with good intentions. How sleepy little towns are microcosms of ego and power. How good intentions and sincerity, by themselves, are not enough. How shameful and melancholic it is to fail.Florence made this mistake but the reader of this novella shouldn't. Do not forget - The world is divided into 'exterminators' and 'exterminatees', with the former outnumbering the latter at any point.

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald is a tale with melancholy at its heart, it is a story of courage and morality and how often they are tested in life.Florence Green, a widow wants to open up a bookshop in a sleepy town of Hardborough, Suffolk to share her love for books with people, Florence always thought of a bookshop as a second home and thus she is unable to understand the enmity that comes with her opening one. Does every town need a bookshop?This book was shortlisted for Booker Prize in 1978 and I can see why, The author has a certain way when it came to description, I could imagine everything.... from the sea to the damp bookshop... to the marshland and the residents. The story is fairly engaging and you start to feel for the protagonist and are enamoured by her in places but there remains a certain dullness that I cannot explain. It falls short of creating a certain magic which it could have, perhaps a protagonist with a little farsightedness and gumption? I am trying to impress my own ideas here probably, but that for me was the missing link.I'd definitely love to read more by the author.

If you are into literary fiction...and reading then buy it.

: Set in a small town in 1959, #thebookshop is a prod through the life of a kind-hearted widow, Florence Green, who decides to open a bookshop which met with opposition from the village's residents. This novel is about her struggle to keep balancing between self-preservation and the bookshop's existence. The language of the book is pretty simple and is written with clarity on the feeling of being isolated in a new place. It's a sad, yet delectable read!

A middle aged women and her struggle of running a bookshop as her own business.Set in the late 1950's. If you like reading old classics you will like it.I gave 3 rating because of the narrative style as it wasn't into a flow (or as i prefer it should be).Overall i liked the book, gives a vague idea about society who is against a women and her bookshop to benefit their own motifs.

How did the book make me feel/think?Florence Green is a lost widow, floundering in a small town, trying to matter. She’s vulnerable. She’s trying to cope. To dig herself out of the doldrums, Florence opens a bookshop to bring hopes + dreams to a town left in the past. Filled with simple people living simple lives. Anytown. Anywhere.‘It is a good book, and therefore you should try to sell it to the inhabitants of Hardborough. They won’t understand it, but that is all good. Understanding makes the mind lazy.’Simple is kept simple by those who yield the power—for no reason other than they can. The definition of evil?These exterminators of hope have no shame.Florence Green is a lost widow who finds a generational soulmate in a voracious reader—waiting for his inevitable end. He sees passion in Florence’s soul. He tries to protect her from the exterminators.The Bookshop is a flowing tragedy, where sadly, ‘haves’ exterminate ‘have-nots.’Bookshop shrewdly mirrors real life, cheering for hopeful failures while at the same time lamenting the inevitability of those holding the cards turning life into a loss for all—for no reason other than they can.That’s how this book made me feel.WRITTEN: January 8, 2021

Una novela corta, que nos sumerge en un microcosmos harto conocido. Pueblo chico infierno grande. Un lugar dónde todos estamos en boca de todos.Interesante

This book is probably one of the best, yet criminally underrated, works of literature I have read in a long time. SPOILER ALERT: The synopsis is basic: Widow decides to open bookshop in community that has none. Bookshop struggles, does well briefly, then falls in popularity. High Society Doyenne finds way to evict bookshop lady, and crushes her dream. Sounds pretty bland, right? However, Fitzgerald is one more masterful writer, along with possessing a keen insight into human nature. She also understands how small towns, particularly those of the more isolated variety that the story is set in, tick. The bookshop is received fairly well by some, not so well by others, and on the whole, everybody works, whether consciously or unconsciously, to undermine the bookshop. Penelope Fitzgerald demonstrates that failure in life is not the greatest injustice one can endure; in fact, failure is an incredibly minor happenstance to the greatest injustice in life, which Florence Greene endures. That greatest injustice is living in a community, thinking you have a place in it, and finding out, when the floor vanishes beneath ones' feet, how truly unwanted you are in the place you have called home. This novel definitely doesn't have a happy ending, but it is very satisfying, but also very sad, so keep a box of tissues nearby for the last couple of chapters. I highly recommend this book.

Interessant de lire le livre avant de voir le film

El libro llegó en perfecto estado y correctamente empaquetado. Me gusta que la edición no pesa y es de un tamaño que permite llevar a cualquier parte.