El lector del tren de las 6.27

Synopsis of El lector del tren de las 6.27

«El lector del tren de las 6.27» is the novel by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, published by Seix Barral in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).

Guibrando Viñol supervises a machine that shreds discarded books, but each night he rescues some pages and reads them aloud on the 6.27 train. A chance discovery changes his life and brings him closer to ordinary characters with extraordinary worlds, in a story of dark humor and tenderness about the misunderstood.

Translation by Adolfo García Ortega; original work in French, Le Liseur du 6h27; Biblioteca Formentor collection.

For readers of literary and contemporary fiction who enjoy everyday characters and extraordinary worlds.