A woman, recently left by her husband, empties her bank account, and moves to Venice. It’s winter; the tourists are gone. At the pension house she is staying at, our narrator meets a Russian aristocrat in a wheel chair, a young dancer, and her lover. As she wanders along the canals, she discovers a bookseller who is deeply in love with the city and who will progressively make her feel alive again…A love story in wintery Venice by the international bestselling author of The Waves (Les Déferlantes).

Seule, Venise, a novel by Claudie Gallay, Le Livre de poche.

Miriam Bridenne

After almost two decades of working in publishing, and a few round trips between Paris and New York, Miriam has decided to settle down at Albertine to do what she enjoys most: recommending books she loves. Somehow this also includes taking bizarre pictures for Albertine's social media outlets.

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