»Und am vierundzwanzigsten Dezember sind wir tot.«
PETRA HARTLIEB
WEIHNACHTEN IN DER WUNDERVOLLEN BUCHHANDLUNG/ CHRISTMAS IN THE WONDERFUL BOOKSHOP
ca. 150 pp., with b/w illustrations
Autumn 2018
Red alert in the bookshop – it’s Christmas - as told by a bookseller
»A declaration of love – to literature, its authors and all enthusiastic readers.«
Süddeutsche Zeitung on Meine wundervolle Buchhandlung
»BY THE TWENTY-FOURTH OF DECEMBER WE’RE ALL KNACKERED «
For a long time, Christmas was one of the nicest days of the year for Petra Hartlieb – until she became the owner of a bookshop. Now Christmas starts at the beginning of November. Together with her colleague Eva, she spends one entire evening stacking and clearing until the wonder is complete and the bookshop is bursting with wares: every table, every shelf, every tiny space is filled with books for Christmas. The clients can come. And they come in hoards – and often in panic. They ask obscure questions, play silly title guessing games with the booksellers, are rushed, desperate and sometimes simply just grateful.
Many regulars have become good friends and bring much needed sustenance, help in every form as well as cheerfulness. And so, even the worst time of the year has nice moments. But for Petra Hartlieb, the most wonderful day of the year is still the 24th December – by 1pm the lights in the shop go off and it’s all over. For a year.
Petra Hartlieb was born in Munich in 1967 and grew up in Austria. She studied psy-chology and history and then worked as a press aide and literary critic in Vienna and Hamburg. In 2004, she took over a traditional Viennese bookshop in the borough of Währing, now ‘Hartliebs Bücher’. Her bestselling novel ›Meine wundervolle Buch-handlung‹ (DuMont 2014) tells of this experience. Petra Hartlieb is the author of sev-eral other novels, most recently ›Wenn es Frühling wird in Wien‹ (DuMont 2018).
Rights to “Meine wundervolle Buchhandlung” sold to: Ciela (Bulgarian), Beijing Creative Art Times International (Simplified Chinese Characters); Cactus Books (Dutch), SOLBITKIL (Korean), Periferica (Spanish World), Timaş (Turkish);
WEIHNACHTEN IN DER WUNDERVOLLEN BUCHHANDLUNG/ CHRISTMAS IN THE WONDERFUL BOOKSHOP
ca. 150 pp., with b/w illustrations
Autumn 2018
Red alert in the bookshop – it’s Christmas - as told by a bookseller
»A declaration of love – to literature, its authors and all enthusiastic readers.«
Süddeutsche Zeitung on Meine wundervolle Buchhandlung
»BY THE TWENTY-FOURTH OF DECEMBER WE’RE ALL KNACKERED «
For a long time, Christmas was one of the nicest days of the year for Petra Hartlieb – until she became the owner of a bookshop. Now Christmas starts at the beginning of November. Together with her colleague Eva, she spends one entire evening stacking and clearing until the wonder is complete and the bookshop is bursting with wares: every table, every shelf, every tiny space is filled with books for Christmas. The clients can come. And they come in hoards – and often in panic. They ask obscure questions, play silly title guessing games with the booksellers, are rushed, desperate and sometimes simply just grateful.
Many regulars have become good friends and bring much needed sustenance, help in every form as well as cheerfulness. And so, even the worst time of the year has nice moments. But for Petra Hartlieb, the most wonderful day of the year is still the 24th December – by 1pm the lights in the shop go off and it’s all over. For a year.
Petra Hartlieb was born in Munich in 1967 and grew up in Austria. She studied psy-chology and history and then worked as a press aide and literary critic in Vienna and Hamburg. In 2004, she took over a traditional Viennese bookshop in the borough of Währing, now ‘Hartliebs Bücher’. Her bestselling novel ›Meine wundervolle Buch-handlung‹ (DuMont 2014) tells of this experience. Petra Hartlieb is the author of sev-eral other novels, most recently ›Wenn es Frühling wird in Wien‹ (DuMont 2018).
Rights to “Meine wundervolle Buchhandlung” sold to: Ciela (Bulgarian), Beijing Creative Art Times International (Simplified Chinese Characters); Cactus Books (Dutch), SOLBITKIL (Korean), Periferica (Spanish World), Timaş (Turkish);
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Petra Hartlieb
Petra Hartlieb was born in Munich in 1967 and grew up in Upper Austria. She studied psychology and history and then worked as a press officer and...
Petra Hartlieb was born in Munich in 1967 and grew up in Upper Austria. She studied psychology and history and then worked as a press officer and literary critic in Vienna and Hamburg. In 2004 she took over a traditional Viennese bookshop in the Währing district, now Hartlieb's Books. Her book 'Meine wundervolle Buchhandlung' (My wonderful bookshop), published by DuMont in 2014, tells the story. In 'Wenn es Frühling wird in Wien' and 'Sommer in Wien' this very bookshop again plays a central...