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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
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'Tom Hope doesn’t think he’s much of a farmer, but he’s doing his best. He can’t have been much of a husband to Trudy, either, judging by her sudden departure. It’s only when she returns, pregnant to someone else, that he discovers his surprising talent as a father. So when Trudy finds Jesus and takes little Peter away with her to join the holy rollers, Tom’s heart breaks all over again.

'Enter Hannah Babel, quixotic smalltown bookseller: the second Jew—and the most vivid person—Tom has ever met. He dares to believe they could make each other happy.

'But it is 1968: twenty-four years since Hannah and her own little boy arrived at Auschwitz. Tom Hope is taking on a batttle with heartbreak he can barely even begin to imagine.' (Publication Summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Ida

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2018 .
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      Extent: 288p.
      Reprinted: 2019 (paperback)
      Note/s:
      • Published 2 April 2018

      ISBN: 9781925603439, 9781922268228, 9781925626476
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      G. P. Putnam's Sons ,
      2019 .
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      Extent: 304p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 9 April 2019.
      ISBN: 9780525535928
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Faber ,
      2019 .
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      Extent: 288p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 11 July 2019
      ISBN: 9780571349784
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      G. P. Putnam's Sons ,
      2020 .
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      Extent: 1vp.
      Note/s:
      • Published 11 August 2020.
      ISBN: 9780593085233
Alternative title: חנות הספרים של שבורי הלב
Language: Hebrew
    • c
      Israel,
      c
      Middle East, Asia,
      :
      תכלת ,
      2018 .
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      Extent: 296p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published November 2018.

Other Formats

  • Large print.
  • Braille.

Works about this Work

Robert Hillman : The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted CG , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 31 March - 6 April 2018;

'It’s the late 1960s in the small town of Hometown, Victoria. People gather at the pub to watch Bellbird and Pick a Box, or drop in at the butcher shop of “Juicy” Collins for a gossip. Winds of change may be sweeping through places such as Melbourne and Sydney, but Hometown has yet to feel more than a ripple.' (Introduction)

Robert Hillman : The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted CG , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 31 March - 6 April 2018;

'It’s the late 1960s in the small town of Hometown, Victoria. People gather at the pub to watch Bellbird and Pick a Box, or drop in at the butcher shop of “Juicy” Collins for a gossip. Winds of change may be sweeping through places such as Melbourne and Sydney, but Hometown has yet to feel more than a ripple.' (Introduction)

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