"Like a chic Parisian boutique, the less-is-more rule applies here. There are small books stacked everywhere—on tables and underneath them, on centuries-old wooden steps, and on the floor. The prices are written in a delicate hand inside each book’s cover. Toward the entrance of this cozy, 120-square-meter space are current literary titles such as Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man, and E.L. Doctorow’s The March, on top of which, attached by a paperclip, rests a white piece of paper that reads, 'Finalist National Book Award.'"

“Something is happening around Odile Hellier and her English-language bookstore on the Left Bank that bears more than a shade of similarity to something that happened around Sylvia Beach and her English Language bookstore on the Left Bank 66 years ago.”