
On a floating bookshop, Jean prescribes novels like medicine, healing everyone but himself. This international bestseller sold 500,000+ copies across 28 languages, inspiring literary tourism to French waterways. Can the right book truly mend a broken heart?
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Jean Perdu runs no ordinary bookstore. Aboard his barge on the Seine River in Paris, he operates the Literary Apothecary-a place where books are prescribed like medicine. With an uncanny gift called "transperception," Jean sees through people's facades to the emotional wounds beneath. He doesn't just sell books; he matches souls with stories that heal. For a woman nursing heartbreak, he bypasses bestsellers and prescribes "The Elegance of the Hedgehog," knowing its wisdom about finding beauty in unexpected places will speak to her wounded spirit. When a grandmother worries about aging and her seven-year-old granddaughter, he suggests creating "an encyclopedia of common emotions"-a creative solution for documenting feelings that fall between the cracks of medical diagnosis. "Booksellers don't look after books-they look after people," Jean believes. He creates intimate spaces where healing begins, surrounding customers with carefully curated stacks that become protective walls both sheltering and inspiring. These literary nests serve as safe harbors where readers explore emotions and discover new perspectives. With the patience of a guardian, Jean watches words reshape his customers from within-a brightening eye, a straightened shoulder, a tentative smile. Yet even as he heals others, he privately wonders if somewhere among his thousands of volumes lies the book that could heal his own broken heart.
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco

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