Used book – The Mystery of Henri Pick, David Foenkinos

In Brittany, a librarian collects all the books rejected by publishers. Among these manuscripts, a young editor discovers a gem written by a certain Henri Pick. She sets out to find him and learns that he died two years earlier. But according to his widow, he never wrote anything other than shopping lists... Could he have had a secret life? Shrouded in this mystery, Pick's book will have astonishing consequences for the literary world.