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In the Library of Lost Books, it's silent, but if you listen carefully, you'll hear voices. Our narrator is a former archaeologist and publishing editor; The last to read the works of forgotten writers. Do you remember the French Symbolist writer Aurelien de Kempf? no? What about Saul b. Johnson, the Vietnam War veteran who wrote brutal detective novels about violence, revenge and justice, and the young genius John Lundström from northern Sweden whom he admired? Today, none of them read; Their books are just letters that have lost their credibility. In thirteen interconnected stories, the narrator seeks to identify a series of forgotten writers, while taking us on a winding journey through the history of literature and reading. Christopher Lindor is a writer, translator, and literary critic. His book The Mask was nominated for the Auguste Prize in 2010, and his novel September (2013) received wide critical acclaim. [Lindor] blends reality, dreams, and sadness, and he does so with subtlety, beauty, and extreme skill. —Jonas Thiente, Dagens Nyheter This work is a wonderful thousand pages long, and its texts are full of creativity and inspiration. /…/ Its scope seems wide, and everything about it is of a high standard. The whole work is both playful and profound, as naive as it is insightful. /…/ “The Library of Lost Books” is a wonderful poem of literature.