Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San Ireneo de Arnois, she is unprepared for what she encounters there. Her employer, a book-loving intellectual, is dashing yet contrarian, always ready with a critique of her cherished Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott. The neighbours, too, are capable of charm and eccentricity in equal measure, determined as they are to preserve their singular little community from the modern world outside. 
Prudencia hoped for friendship in San Ireneo but she didn't suspect that she might find love - nor that the course of her new life would run quite so rocky, would offer challenge and heartache as well as joy, discovery and fireside debate. The Awakening of Miss Prim is a distinctive and delightfully entertaining tale of literature, philosophy and the search for happiness.

The Awakening of Miss Prim

Literature & Fiction

Sanmartín Fenollera, Natalia

Contemporary

ABACUS +

In this #1 international bestseller, a young woman leaves everything behind to work as a librarian in a remote French village, where she finds her outlook on life and love challenged in every way. Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San Ireneo de Arnois, she is unprepared for what she encounters there. Her employer, a book-loving intellectual, is dashing yet contrarian, always ready with a critique of her cherished Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott. The neighbors, too, are capable of charm and eccentricity in equal measure, determined as they are to preserve their singular little community from the modern world outside. Prudencia hoped for friendship in San Ireneo but she didn't suspect that she might find love—nor that the course of her new life would run quite so rocky or would offer challenge and heartache as well as joy, discovery, and fireside debate. Set against a backdrop of steaming cups of tea, freshly baked cakes, and lovely company, The Awakening of Miss Prim is a distinctive and delightfully entertaining tale of literature, philosophy, and the search for happiness.

The Awakening of Miss Prim: A Novel

Literary

Atria Books

Le monde entier est uniformisé. Non ! Un petit village d'irréductibles résiste encore et toujours en prônant le retour à l'essentiel, la recherche du bien commun et l'épanouissement dans ses passions. 
 Cherche esprit féminin détaché du monde. Capable d'exercer fonction de bibliothécaire. Pouvant cohabiter avec chiens et enfants. De préférence sans expérience professionnelle. Titulaires de diplômes s'abstenir. Mademoiselle Prim, bardée de diplômes et sans expérience d'enfants et de chiens, ne répondait qu'en partie à ce profil... Engagée par un étrange gentleman, aussi cultivé que peu délicat, elle va découvrir la singularité et les secrets du petit village de Saint-Irénée d'Arnois. Loin du monde moderne, les habitants semblent s'être mis d'accord pour faire de leur vie un bonheur permanent. Prudence Prim tombe vite sous le charme de ce paradis perdu et de sa devise : profitez de la splendeur des choses simples de la vie ! " Ce n'est pas un livre, c'est un ovni. Un roman tombé du ciel. " Le Figaro littéraire " Succulent ! À lire sans modération... " La Croix

L'éveil de Mademoiselle Prim

Genre Fiction

Pocket

Das Erwachen der Señorita Prim

OSTERWOLDaudio

El despertar de la señorita Prim (Spanish Edition)

Booket

Product Description «Mi madre creía en las hadas y en los dragones, decía que creía en todos esos seres legendarios que la memoria de los hombres no recuerda ya. No es que estuviese segura del todo. No creía en las hadas del mismo modo en que creía en Dios, en la Virgen o en los santos. Solo decía que podían haber existido cuando el mundo apenas estaba en pañales y los hombres aún no se habían acostumbrado a los regalos fabulosos de Dios».Un cuento de Navidad para Le Barroux narra la historia de un niño sin madre que pregunta incansablemente a Dios si lo que ella le contaba sobre Belén, el cielo y las estrellas ocurrió en realidad. Día tras día, durante tres largos años, implora una señal. Hasta que llega la tercera Navidad... Book Description Un precioso cuento que recupera el corazón tradicional de la Navidad About the Author Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera es autora de la aclamada novela El despertar de la señorita Prim (Planeta, 2013), traducida a once idiomas y publicada en Italia (Mondadori), Alemania (Thiele Verlag), Francia (Grasset), EE. UU y Canadá (Atria Books), Reino Unido y Commonwealth (Abacus), Polonia (Amber), República Checa (Host), Lituania (Vsi, Tikroji Moneta), Eslovenia (Druzina), Croacia (Verbum), Portugal (Porto Editora), Brasil (Quadrante de Sociedade de Publicaçoes Culturais) y Turquía (Epsilon).

Un cuento de Navidad para Le Barroux

Children's Books

Editorial Planeta

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