For readers who have cherished Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road, here is a correspondence for the age of exile, memory, and lightning.
A manuscript travels from Chiang Mai to a London bookshop. Four years of letters begin.
When Athena Tong, a poet living in Chiang Mai, sends her work to Jeremy Cranswick, who has worked at London's Watkins Books since 1990, an exchange about reading and publication becomes an unexpected friendship across generations, cultures, and continents.
Like 84, Charing Cross Road, this book begins with a love of books and the rare intimacy of two people who have never met. But these letters travel further: into poetry, music, philosophy, faith, memory, war, freedom, and the moral pressures of public life.
Across four years, Athena and Jeremy ask what it means to remain awake to history, to preserve memory when it is threatened, and to speak truthfully in an uncertain world.
Part literary correspondence and part philosophical reflection, The Blue Bird and the Lightning is a moving record of friendship, moral courage, and the enduring human need to read, think, and answer one another.
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - For readers who have cherished Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road, here is a correspondence for the age of exile, memory, and lightning.A manuscript travels from Chiang Mai to a London bookshop. Four years of letters begin.When Athena Tong, a poet living in Chiang Mai, sends her work to Jeremy Cranswick, who has worked at London's Watkins Books since 1990, an exchange about reading and publication becomes an unexpected friendship across generations, cultures, and continents.Like 84, Charing Cross Road, this book begins with a love of books and the rare intimacy of two people who have never met. But these letters travel further: into poetry, music, philosophy, faith, memory, war, freedom, and the moral pressures of public life.Across four years, Athena and Jeremy ask what it means to remain awake to history, to preserve memory when it is threatened, and to speak truthfully in an uncertain world.Part literary correspondence and part philosophical reflection, The Blue Bird and the Lightning is a moving record of friendship, moral courage, and the enduring human need to read, think, and answer one another. Codice articolo 9798950183188
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. The Blue Bird and the Lightning | Secret Letters to Watkins Bookshop | Athena Tong (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Bobcat Press | EAN 9798950183188 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Codice articolo 138114093
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