num_pages: 119
description: A beautifully tragic and thought-provoking tale that perfectly reflects the elegance and style of Murakami and the skill and plotting of Julian Barnes Bilodo lives a solitary daily life routinely completing his postal rounds every day and returning to his empty Montreal apartment. But he has found a way to break the cycleBilodo has taken to stealing people's mail steaming open the envelopes and reading the letters inside. And so it is he comes across Sgolne's letters. She is corresponding with Gaston a master poet and their letters are each composed of only three lines. They are writing each other haikus. The simplicity and elegance of their poems move Bilado and he begins to fall in love with her. But one day out on his round he witnesses a terrible and tragic accident. Just as Gaston is walking up to the post-box to mail his next haiku to Sgolne he is hit by a car and dies on the side of the road. And so Bilodo makes an extraordinary decisionhe will impersonate Gaston and continue to write to Sgolne under this guise. But how long can the deception continue for? Denis Thriault weaves a passionate and elegant tale comic and tragic with a love story at its heart.
language: English
title: The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman
publisher: Hesperus Press