A STACK OF BOOKS IN FRONT OF A CLOSED DOOR. A PAIN THAT WON’T GO AWAY.
An old workshop for the processing of silk transformed into a charming bookstore. Together with her best friend, Sophie, Greta made her dream come true. Away from Milan, the city where she was born and raised, she built a life for herself.
One day, however, Sophie falls ill. And within a few months she disappears. Greta finds herself having to look after Lena, the teenage daughter of her friend, and the bookstore business, which are going decidedly less well than expected. Without Sophie, her rock, the world seems to be crumbling. And Lena, locked in her grief, has no intention of accepting a new mother.
In an attempt to find a common language, Greta begins to pile up books in front the locked door of the girl’s room. They are the novels that changed her life, the masterpieces of her heart: a silent offering of love.
Between stories, exchanges of books and an unexpected investigation into the history of her great-grandmother Catena that will lead them to move between Milan, Paris and Lyon, Greta will succeed in win Lena’s trust.
The bookstore between two rivers is a story of rebirth through literature. A novel that touches on the tones and colors of comedy and drama, a great adventure of uncontainable joys and piercing sadnesses, in the sign of the never simple, but capital search for happiness. A celebration of the importance of books, of their ability to create bonds and to heal, page after page.