Book description
Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto "by the young, for the young," discovering the twenty-four-year-old…
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I found this treasure in my local little free library in Colonia Guadalupe, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and devoured it. In 1935, when he was barely out of his teens, Edmond Charlot launched in Algiers a combination bookstore, lending library, and publishing house that became incredibly influential.
Charlot often had to work on a shoestring budget, and he survived wars and persecutions by French colonial authorities, but for the love of books and writers, he never gave up. How can we, as readers and authors, not love this guy in return?
Kaouther Adimi tells much of the story through…
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