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Days at the Morisaki bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa ; translated by Eric Ozawa

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Days at the Morisaki bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa ; translated by Eric Ozawa

Language

eng

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novels

Main title

Days at the Morisaki bookshop

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Satoshi Yagisawa ; translated by Eric Ozawa

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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