by Alberto Manguel · Comune di Carpi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9791221009859
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«La ruota dei libri» is a short story collection by Alberto Manguel, published by Comune di Carpi in paperback (121 pages, in Italian).
The book brings together eleven stories set in libraries. Each story takes place in that space and makes books and reading the common thread, offering different perspectives on the role of the library.
The recorded publication date is 1 January 2022, and the entry classifies it under Literature and Fiction.
For readers of short fiction interested in stories set in libraries and the world of books.
Alberto Manguel is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of Argentina. He is a cosmopolitan and polyglot scholar, speaking English, Spanish, German, and French fluently, and also Italian and Portuguese at a very advanced level. He left Argentina at the age of twenty, in 1968. He has lived in Israel, Argentina, France, United Kingdom, Italy, French Polynesia, Canada, United States and Portugal. Since 2021 he has directed an international center for reading studies in Lisbon, baptized in 2023 as Espaço Atlântida; In the biography of the center's website you can read: "He became a Canadian citizen and continues to identify his nationality as first and foremost Canadian."
