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248 pages, Paperback
First published November 2, 2020
Seventy-two-year-old Carl Kollhoff works at a bookstore handling a distinctive role. His job is to deliver books to special customers after closing hours. Carl knows these customers and their reading tastes well and respects their needs and desires.
When 鈥渘early ten鈥�-year-old Schascha bumps into Carl one day during his rounds and insists on accompanying him on his rounds, Carl is flustered. He has no experience with kids and doesn鈥檛 know how to handle this impetuous child. But soon, he realises that Schascha has her own wisdom to offer about his books and his routes, even when he hasn鈥檛 asked her for her advice. When Carl鈥檚 job is in danger, he needs to rethink what to do with his life, because he has always been the 鈥榖ook walker鈥�.
The story is written in a limited third person perspective, mostly from Carl鈥檚 pov.