We Bought a Bookstore. How to Fulfill a Book Lover's Dream and Almost Not Go Mad from Happiness and Readers

One day, leave an orderly life and career in Hamburg and, succumbing to a spontaneous impulse, buy a small bankrupt bookstore in Vienna? Why not! This is a cozy and inspiring story about how Petra Hartlieb realized the secret dream of every book lover and became the owner of a successful Viennese bookstore. The shop has become a real home for her family — with regular customers who become friends, and friends who stop by to read and chat. Petra's tale is filled with humor and self-irony, and every line is a confession of love for the world of books. A long-term bestseller of Spiegel. We stand silently in front of the store on the street, and in the bright sunlight, everything seems like an absurd dream. — So what? — asks my husband. — What — what? — I ask back. — What do you think? — Terrible. And you? — Me too. — Well then… ... — But something can be done with this. — Yes, but the apartment is no good. — Why? An excellent spacious apartment can come out of this! Look, we’ll make a kitchen out of the warehouse, a living room from the large office with desks, we’ll put a TV in the copy room. The photo lab will be converted into a bathroom, and there will be several small bedrooms for the kids. — You’ve lost your mind. — Yes, probably. Who is this book for: For everyone who loves books and bookstores and secretly dreams of having their own little bookshop. For those who liked “The Bookseller's Diary,” “The Book Delivery Service,” “You’ll Find It in the Library,” and other books about books. From the author: Is there a future for books? Will bookstores continue to exist? What can I say about this? Of course, books have a future, and bookstores will exist. I can think of nothing else, because it’s like asking a farmer who has a barn full of milking cows if he believes that in the future people will still drink milk or cocoa. Both the farmer and the bookseller — we have no choice but to believe. Whether both will be able to earn a living in ten years is a debatable question, but we’re unlikely to