Island of Books
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781552453384
Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Description: "A 15th-century portrait painter, grieving the sudden death of his lover, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, an island off the coast of France. He haunts the halls until a monk assigns him the task of copying a manuscript - though he is illiterate. His work slowly heals him and continues the tradition that had, centuries earlier, grown the monastery's library into a beautiful city of books, all under the shadow of the invention of the printing press."--