Libreria Donceles in Brooklyn will feature roughly 25,000 second-hand books in Spanish on a tour that has involved cites like Miami, San Francisco in the past.
There are roughly 25,000 books stacked in piles and on shelves throughout a Van Brunt Street shop in Red Hook.
But in less than a month, those books will be shipped across the country.
That’s how Librería Donceles — a travelling bookshop currently stopping at 360 Van Brunt St. — works. The old-fashioned bookshop, created by artist Pablo Helguera, opened late last month and sells only Spanish-language second-hand books.
For the last two years, the used books have traveled to New York, Miami, San Francisco and other cities to supply people with literature written in Spanish.
Helguera, 43, started the initiative in 2013 after returning to his birthplace of Mexico City and collecting books from locals to take back to the United States for people who lack access to Spanish literature.
The announcement came directly from the Peruvian author while he attended the 1st Spanish International Forum in Madrid, Spain. Vargas Llosa said likes knowing the title of his next book in advance.
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