Every morning on the 6.27 train, a young man reads aloud excerpts from books put under the knife at a waste paper recycling plant. Some passengers even specially sit in the same carriage with him - for a twenty-minute trip, reading takes them far from dull everyday life. One day he finds a flash drive under the seat with the diary of an unknown girl, and his life takes on a new goal - to find this modern Cinderella. Jean-Paul Didielorand is known as a brilliant short story writer, crowned with prestigious awards, including twice the International Hemingway Prize. “The Morning Reader” is his first novel, which immediately became one of the top sellers. Critics wrote about it as a literary phenomenon: sixty thousand copies were sold in less than four months, and twenty-five countries bought the translation rights.