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Description

A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter-and, most urgently, a manifesto. Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. Collecting the author's essays on these vital social, cultural, and intellectual spaces, as well as his interviews with the writers who love them — including Alberto Manguel, Iain Sinclair, Luigi Amara and Han Kang, among others — Against Amazon is equal parts a history of books and bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter — and, most urgently, a manifesto against the corrosive pressures of late capitalism.

Author Biography:

Jorge Carrión’s Bookshops: A Reader’s History, published by Biblioasis in 2017, was universally acclaimed and has appeared in thirteen languages. He is the author of three novels, including Los muertos, which won the 2011 Festival de Chambéry Prize for best first novel in Spanish. Carrión’s journalism appears in the Spanish-language edition of the New York Times and many other newspapers in Europe and the Americas. He lives in Barcelona, where he is the director of the creative writing program at Pompeu Fabra University. Peter Bush's recent translations include Teresa Solana’s The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories, his selection of Barcelona Tales, and Quim Monzó’s Why, Why, Why? In press are Josep Pla’s Salt Water and Juan Francisco de Dios Hernández’s Leonardo Balada: A Transatlantic Gaze; in process, Balzac’s The Lily in the Valley and Najat El Hachmi’s Mother of Milk and Honey. He lives in Oxford, UK.
Release date NZ
December 3rd, 2020
Author
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  • Translated by Peter Bush
Pages
280
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
ISBN-13
9781771963039
Product ID
32940283

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