num_pages: 430
description: An engrossing Danish literary thriller of intrigue conspiracy and the extraordinary power of reading Imagine that some people have the power to affect your thoughts and feelings through readingto seduce you with amazing stories conjure up vividly imagined worlds and manipulate you into thinking exactly what they want you to. When Luca Campelli dies a sudden and violent death his son Jon inherits his second-hand bookshop Libri di Luca in Copenhagen. Jon had not seen his father for 20 yearssince the mysterious death of his mother. After Lucas death is followed by an arson attempt on the shop Jon is forced to explore his familys past. Unbeknownst to him the bookshop has for years been hiding a remarkable secret. It is the meeting place of a society of booklovers and readers who have maintained a tradition of immense power passed down from the days of the great library of ancient Alexandria. Now someone is trying to destroy them and Jon finds he must fight to save himself and his new friends.
language: English
title: The Library of Shadows
publisher: Transworld Publishers