Pierre Peju is a popular French writer, winner of prestigious literary awards, author of more than 15 novels and essays, translated into two dozen languages. The book “Little Abode” is one of the author’s strongest books, which brought him great popularity in France and abroad. In 2003, she was awarded the Livre Inter prize, and two years later, director Jean-Pierre Denis made a film of the same name based on the novel, which was a great success with audiences. A little girl caught under the wheels of a truck, her young mother trying to escape from reality, and between them is the bookseller Vollard, obsessed with reading, the culprit of the tragedy and the savior at the same time, whose exceptional ability to recite everything he read from memory turns out to be the best cure for physical and mental suffering. Pierre Peju's novel is a hymn to the all-conquering power of books, capable of dominating death and loneliness.