A BELOVED FRENCH BESTSELLER · Translated from the French · Indian subcontinent edition
Love can find you in the most unexpected places.
Guylain works at a book-pulping plant on the outskirts of Paris, feeding unsold books into a machine that destroys them, and he is worn down by the sameness of his days. His one joy is the 6.27 metro. Every morning he rescues a few loose pages from the machine and reads them aloud to his fellow commuters, turning the journey into a one-man show with different material each day.
Then he finds a handful of pages that aren't from any book at all: the journal of a young woman named Julie, who turns out to share his loneliness. As Guylain falls in love with her words, he begins to wonder whether he could fall in love with her, too.
Warm, whimsical and quietly moving, this is a story about what life can offer when you open yourself to the possibility of more, and about how literature can widen both your mind and your heart — a perfect gift for anyone who believes books can fix almost anything.
About the author
Jean-Paul Didierlaurent is a French writer. The Reader on the 6.27, his debut novel, became an international bestseller and has been translated into many languages.
Edition details
- Pan Macmillan paperback
- For sale in the Indian subcontinent only
