A novel about the seductiveness of books and reading. Sonya Gore is a lover of books. The owner of a struggling second-hand bookshop, she is facing ruin when a terrible solution presents itself. Meanwhile, a series of mysterious short stories start to appear in odd places, written in the form of dialogues between historical figures such as Kafka and Hemingway, Moses and Marx. They are obviously meant for Sonya, but who is sending them, and why? Gradually,...