Mundome

by A.G. Mojtabai

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671217313
• ISBN13: 9780671217310
• Release Date: April 1974
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Interesting author, interesting book.

Here's a sample quote. The protagonist is a librarian:"Many of our readers come in off the streets just to get warm, or to snatch a bit of sleep, or to be close to people without having to pay a fare, people with nowhere to go, nearly all of them sober. They deposit a layer of misery, like silt, over the tables and chairs. They bleed copiously over the white pages of the books.""And the librarians? Are we votaries, or mice, or cashiers, behind our wickets, inside these dim enclosures? Refugees all, from one thing or another, all are taken in. Musicians out of work, expatriates, unpublished poets, brooders, dreamers, keepers of the grail, the walking stillborn: the never-would-be's, the almost-was -- all clerks to you.Lonely as lighthouse keepers, we have a special feeling for books. Books, to us, are friends and lovers and absent children."