The story so far
Biography
He is in his sixties, an elderly man of scholarly disposition with a genuinely impressive personal library. The bookshop is less a commercial enterprise optimized for profit and more a collection that has gotten slightly out of hand and developed a door; he collects and sells unusual and weird books. Chask is the kind of bookseller who is as likely to talk a customer out of a purchase as into one, as he believes life is short and there are better books than the one they are reaching for. He considers the education of his customers a professional obligation that takes precedence over his bank account.
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