The book postman
The book postman
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A feel-good novel about friendship and books.
Bookseller Karl Kohlhoff delivers books to the homes of some of his customers in the evenings, after the bookstore closes, crossing the picturesque streets of the city. He has a special bond with these customers - they are almost friends - and in a way, he is their link to the outside world. But when Karl suddenly loses his job, it will take the power of books and a nine-year-old girl to make everyone, including Karl, find the courage to reach out to each other...
Light, tender, moving and bibliophile, Carsten Henn's novel reminds us that we only have each other - and books.
Karl Kohlhoff is not an ordinary 75-year-old. A book lover and an old bookseller, he lives attached, one might say, to an earlier era, with an unprecedented romanticism. So he works in the bookstore of his mentor Gustav – and stays there despite noticing the dislike of the new manager and Gustav's daughter towards him. Because Kohlhoff, alone in life, has not learned to live otherwise. He is lonely and his friends are books. The books and his strange customers: lonely people and themselves, each trapped in their own greater or lesser drama, who have established a peculiar habit: they wait every week for the bookseller of their hearts to bring them home the right book for them. Karl's visit and his choices prove beneficial for these people. Especially when a strange nine-year-old girl enters the game, the whirlwind girl with mature thinking and boldness, who, finding an outlet for her own loneliness (orphaned by her mother, with an absent-minded father, and being teased at school), follows Carl everywhere and, with her carefree childishness, changes the lives of his clients.
THE PRESS WROTE
A declaration of love for the written word, a happy and easy-to-read feel-good book.
Westfalen-Blatt
The author's language is as great as his story: full of love, light, strong. You cry while reading, you laugh, and sometimes you do both at the same time.
Girlfriend
The most heartwarming and moving novel we could ask for as readers in this special year. It's a book that somehow embraces you when you read it, truly holds you in its arms.
German Radio
Bookseller Karl Kohlhoff delivers books to the homes of some of his customers in the evenings, after the bookstore closes, crossing the picturesque streets of the city. He has a special bond with these customers - they are almost friends - and in a way, he is their link to the outside world. But when Karl suddenly loses his job, it will take the power of books and a nine-year-old girl to make everyone, including Karl, find the courage to reach out to each other...
Light, tender, moving and bibliophile, Carsten Henn's novel reminds us that we only have each other - and books.
Karl Kohlhoff is not an ordinary 75-year-old. A book lover and an old bookseller, he lives attached, one might say, to an earlier era, with an unprecedented romanticism. So he works in the bookstore of his mentor Gustav – and stays there despite noticing the dislike of the new manager and Gustav's daughter towards him. Because Kohlhoff, alone in life, has not learned to live otherwise. He is lonely and his friends are books. The books and his strange customers: lonely people and themselves, each trapped in their own greater or lesser drama, who have established a peculiar habit: they wait every week for the bookseller of their hearts to bring them home the right book for them. Karl's visit and his choices prove beneficial for these people. Especially when a strange nine-year-old girl enters the game, the whirlwind girl with mature thinking and boldness, who, finding an outlet for her own loneliness (orphaned by her mother, with an absent-minded father, and being teased at school), follows Carl everywhere and, with her carefree childishness, changes the lives of his clients.
THE PRESS WROTE
A declaration of love for the written word, a happy and easy-to-read feel-good book.
Westfalen-Blatt
The author's language is as great as his story: full of love, light, strong. You cry while reading, you laugh, and sometimes you do both at the same time.
Girlfriend
The most heartwarming and moving novel we could ask for as readers in this special year. It's a book that somehow embraces you when you read it, truly holds you in its arms.
German Radio
