A book from the public library

Author's name: Susan OrlinDar Publishing house: Dar Al-Mada for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2022 Literary classification: Novel Book summary: In the novel "A Book from the Public Library" Susan Orlin follows the story of the mysterious fire that burned 400,000 books while also tracing the love of libraries and the history and future of the Los Angeles Public Library: "My first interest was to write a book about the daily life of a big city library." She said after we visited the library together: "I liked the idea of doing this in Los Angeles, because of the contradictory idea that people do not associate libraries with Los Angeles, which made it somewhat fun." Orlin describes the fire with a novelist's taste and conveys to readers the horror of fire and how it blazed with anger and fed itself book after book. Susan Orlin received the Travel Literature Award in 2007. She earned a doctorate from Harvard University in Humanities. She said she "always dreamed of being a writer." She is described as a national treasure for America and her novels top the best-sellers list. The Guardian newspaper describes the novel as a shameless love letter to the public library system.