Rejection Library
by J
About This Novel
A library dedicated to storing manuscripts rejected by publishers, a sudden best-selling masterpiece, an unknown author who is said to have never read a book, a suspenseful story about books and people. "The Library of Rejected Manuscripts" is a best-selling novel published in 2016 by the contemporary French writer David Fontenos. There is a "Rejected Manuscript Library" in Crozon, Brittany, France. For more than ten years, it has been dedicated to collecting manuscripts delivered by the author himself that cannot be published and have given up hope of publication. Delphi, an experienced editor in the publishing industry, and her fiancé, the frustrated young novelist Frederick, accidentally visited the library and discovered a masterpiece: "The Last Hour of a Love Story" by the author named "Henry Peake". Who is "Henry Peake"? In the process of investigating the author's identity, Delphi and Frederick discovered that he was a deceased pizza chef. In the eyes of his widow and daughter, Henry Peake almost never touched books, and his life had nothing to do with writing. Unexpectedly, when the manuscript was published under Delphi's operation, it achieved great success, and the Rejected Manuscript Library, which few people paid attention to, also became famous. However, some people have begun to doubt the authorship of the lost work. Apart from the name on the cover page of the manuscript, what else can prove that a man who is busy with the small pizza shop business is writing a novel that pays tribute to the great poet Pushkin? Is there another twist to the incident, or is the whole thing an elaborate hoax? "The last moments of the love story" seem to be coming quietly to everyone involved...
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