Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
The perfect book to curl up with - for lovers of Japanese translated fiction everywhere
By Satoshi Yagisawa
Translated by Eric Ozawa
Harry Hartog's review
Booklovers will delight in reading this book. Bookshops are not like other retail spaces. they are magical places full of knowledge, possibilities and connections. they are a pleasant destination where calm and leisure is embraced. This book is heart-warming, unadorned and very charming. Books do indeed have the power of healing as this tale will demonstrate. A lovely little story which is balm for our troubled times. - Bibi, Bookseller
Description
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books.
Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and joy of her uncle Satoru, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoko left him five years earlier.
When Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above the shop. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the Morisaki bookshop.
As summer fades to autumn, Satoru and Takako discover they have more in common than they first thought. The Morisaki bookshop has something to teach them both about life, love, and the healing power of books.
- ISBN:
- 9781786583239
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 160
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Bonnier Books Ltd
- Imprint:
- Manilla Press
- Weight:
- 166 g