The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

 

　　莎拉，是一個寧靜的瑞典小鎮女孩，也是一個愛讀書的書店店員。突然有天，她工作的書店無預警關門，這時她多年的筆友、也是愛書人的艾米，便邀請莎拉到愛荷華住一段時間。

 

　　當莎拉抵達這個愛荷華小鎮時，卻赫然發現，艾米的葬禮剛結束：原來艾米已病得很重，但卻從未告訴她的好友。莎拉想回老家，但鎮民卻說艾米會希望莎拉能在這個小鎮待一段時間，於是莎拉在這裡—只有幾家小店、一間餐廳，和三十幾戶居民的小鎮住了下來。

 

　　這個快要消失的小鎮接受了莎拉，而莎拉也將居民們當作自己的家人，甚至開始根據她這些新朋友的性格，介紹他們書籍。這個小鎮的居民原本並未意識到閱讀的樂趣，卻因為莎拉，開始有自己想讀的書。

 

　　《The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend》是一個溫馨的閱讀故事，提醒我們書如何找到我們、改變我們，並怎麼走進我們的人生。（文／博客來編譯）

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!

Katarina Bivald’s The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend is a sweet, smart, and uplifting story about how books find us, change us, and connect us.

Once you let a book into your life the most unexpected things can happen: Like the bestselling historical novel and Netflix film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend is a heartwarming reminder of why we love books.

Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara: Sara traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her book-loving pen pal Amy, but when she arrives she finds Amy’s funeral guests just leaving. The residents of Broken Wheel are happy to look after their bewildered visitor--there’s not much else to do in a dying small town that’s almost beyond repair. You certainly wouldn’t open a bookstore. And definitely not with Sara the tourist in charge.

You’d need a vacant storefront (Main Street is full of them), books (Amy’s house is full of them), and...customers. The bookstore might be a little quirky. Then again, so is Sara. But Broken Wheel’s own story might be funnier, more eccentric and surprising than she thought.

If you liked big-hearted books like The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry or Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, you will love The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend.

Praise for The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend:

＂The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend is a warm and slyly funny look at small towns and romance...＂--New York Journal of Books

＂A heartwarming tale about literature’s power to transform.＂--People

＂What begins as an unlikely international friendship based on a mutual love of books becomes a sweet and soulful discovery of America. Quirky, unpredictable, funny, and fresh--a wonderful book.＂--Nickolas Butler, internationally bestselling author of Shotgun Lovesongs and Beneath the Bonfire

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作者簡介

　　Katarina Bivald lives outside of Stockholm, Sweden. This is her first novel. She grew up working part-time in a bookshop.