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Barcode30293102404931
StatusIn Processing
LocationClark County
Call NoF Dunl
TitleThe library of leaving : a novel / Emily Dunlay.
AuthorDunlay, Emily, author.
CollectionF
Total Circ0
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102404931F Dunl9/29/2026 In Processing 

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780063354975 ebook
International Standard Book Number 9780063354951 hardcover
International Standard Book Number 0063354950 hardcover
Personal Name Dunlay, Emily, author.
Title Statement The library of leaving : a novel / Emily Dunlay.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2026.
Physical Description 375 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary, Etc. "From the author of Teddy, a dazzling historical novel about an American librarian in 1920s Switzerland who must face the truth of decisions she made to survive during the First World War. In the wake of the Great War, American Helen Fox lives a solitary life in Switzerland as a librarian, cataloguing books left as bequests by diplomats and other expatriates. Bookish and buttoned-up, Helen is shocked when she receives a package that hints at her far more colorful past: it's a draft chapter of a novel written by a man she knew intimately during the war -- a soldier she nursed at a camp in the Alps for wounded Allied troops. Though he claims his book is fiction, Helen is afraid of what it might reveal about who Helen used to be, really, and whose side she might have been on. . . . Bursting with literary references and testament to the power of reading, this lush and atmospheric tale of love, grief, and betrayal interweaves Helen's own recollections of her life-including her affair with an exiled Austrian baron -- with pages from her ex-lover's supposedly fictional book and other dispatches. The Library of Leaving is both a story of a wartime romance and a meditation on how books read or written tell -- and sometimes distort -- the truth of a life"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Secrecy Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1914-1918 Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Americans Switzerland Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women librarians Switzerland Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Switzerland Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.

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