The Paris Bookseller – Kerri Maher
Opening her own English bookshop in Paris, Sylvia Beach has made her dream come true. Together with Adrienne Monnier’s well known French bookshop, this literary cluster at rue de l’Odéon soon is highly acclaimed, well-known and almost daily visited by young and famous French and American writers of the 1920s and 1930s in a bohemian, sparkling Paris. When James Joyce tells her that his avant-garde novel Ulysses is officially banned and forbidden in America, before it even was published, she just has to do something, because she is absolutely convinced that readers could not be deprived of the possibility to read this innovative novel. There could be only one solution and she is ready to accept the challenge and risk everything.