The Paper House
Thousand Horsemen Press
On a spring day in 1998 literature professor Bluma Lennon buys a used copy of Emily Dickinson s poems from a Soho bookshop Moments after she starts reading it she s struck by a car on a street corner and killed After her funeral one of her colleagues the book s narrator receives a package addressed to Bluma a broken spined old copy of Conrad s The Shadow Line inscribed with her own dedication Intrigued he sets off on a quest that leads him to Buenos Aires searching for clues about Carlos Brauer a devoted book collector and his mysterious connection to Bluma Already a worldwide classic in its genre The Paper House is a venture beyond our shadow lines and what we fear to leave behind to cross them Tanıtım Bülteninden