Books are dangerous in a country where freedom does not exist.

The truth is that literature can grab hold of us and capture our entire attention. It can transport us to other worlds, free us from every day cares. We can lose ourselves in literature.

A cabinet of fantasies, a source of knowledge, a collection of lore from past and present, a place to dream....a bookshop can be so many things.

Discovering a book meant freely rising above the demands of everyday life and uprooting your own existence from the here and now in order to plant it elsewhere.