Island of Books

Description:

"A 15th-century portrait painter, grieving the sudden death of his lover, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, an island off the coast of France. He haunts the halls until a monk assigns him the task of copying a manuscript - though he is illiterate. His work slowly heals him and continues the tradition that had, centuries earlier, grown the monastery's library into a beautiful city of books, all under the shadow of the invention of the printing press."--

subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Fiction,  Medieval Manuscripts,  Monastic libraries,  History,  Mont-Saint-Michel (Abbey : France)