by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows · AMSTERDAM · tapa dura · ISBN 9788415645771
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«La societat literària i del pastís de pela de patata de Guernsey» is the historical novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows in hardcover, in Catalan.
In 1946, London writer Juliet Ashton is looking for a subject for her next novel. A letter from a stranger leads her to the island of Guernsey, where a peculiar literary society was born as an excuse during the German occupation. There she discovers how books and letters among its members created bonds of friendship and resilience in wartime.
Translation from English by Marta Vilella Llamas. Original title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008).
For reading clubs and readers of epistolary novels set in postwar Europe, with books as the common thread.
Mary Ann Shaffer was an American writer, editor, librarian, and a bookshop worker. She is noted for her posthumously published work The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which she wrote with her niece, Annie Barrows.
