Every morning on the 6.27 train, a young man reads out loud excerpts from books that were “thrown aside” at the paper-recycling plant. Some passengers even choose to sit in the same carriage with him—the twenty minutes of the ride carries them far away from the dull everyday routine. One day he finds, under a seat, a flash drive with a diary written by an unknown girl, and his life gains a new purpose—to find this modern-day Cinderella. Jean-Paul Diedeloran is known as a brilliant writer of novellas, awarded prestigious prizes, including the Hemmingway International Prize twice. “The Morning Reader” is his first novel, which immediately became a bestseller. Critics wrote about him as a literary phenomenon: a print run of sixty thousand copies sold out in less than four months, and translation rights were bought by twenty-five countries.