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Author Martinez, Cyrille, 1972- author.

Title The dark library / Cyrille Martinez ; translated by Joseph Patrick Stancil.

Publication Info. Toronto : Coach House Books, [2020]
©2020

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  SF MARTINEZ, C.    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F MARTINEZ CYRILLE    Check Shelf
Edition First English-language edition.
Description 167 pages ; 19 cm
Note "Originally published as La bibliothèque noire by Libella, Paris, 2018"--Title page verso.
Language In English. Translated from the French.
Summary "Libraries are magical places. But what if they're even more magical than we know? In Cyrille Martinez's library, the books are alive: not just their ideas or their stories, but the books themselves. Meet the Angry Young Book, who has strong opinions about who reads what and why. He's tired of people reading bestsellers, so he places himself on the desks of those who might appreciate him. Meet the Old Historian who mysteriously vanished from the stacks. Meet the Blue Librarian, the Mauve Librarian, the Yellow Librarian, and spend a day with the Red Librarian trying to banish coffee cups and laptops. Then one day there are no empty desks anywhere in the Great Library. A great horde of student workers has descended, and they will scan every single book in the library: the much-borrowed, the neglected, the popular, the obscure. What will happen to the library then? Will it still be necessary? The Dark Library is a theoretical fiction, a meditation on what libraries mean in our digital world. Has the act of reading changed? What is a reader? A book? Martinez, a librarian himself, has written a love letter to the urban forest of the dark, wild library, where ideas and stories roam free."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Libraries -- Fiction.
Librarians -- Fiction.
Books and reading -- Fiction.
Library materials -- Digitization -- Fiction.
Libraries. (OCoLC)fst00997341
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Allegories.
French fiction -- Translations into English.
Added Author Stancil, Joseph Patrick, translator.
Added Title Bibliothèque noire. English
ISBN 9781552454077 (paperback)
155245407X (paperback)
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