Satoshi Yagisawa

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (eBook, ePUB)

The perfect book to curl up with - for lovers of Japanese translated fiction everywhere

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

PRE-ORDER THE UNFORGETTABLE SEQUEL MORE DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP, OUT IN JULY 2024

The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book.

When twenty-five-year-old Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above his shop.

Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo, the Morisaki Bookshop is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building, the shop is filled with hundreds of second-hand books. It is Satoru's pride and joy, and he has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife left him five years earlier.

Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the shop.

And 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.

Quirky, beautifully written, and movingly profound, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop will appeal to readers of Before The Coffee Gets Cold, The Cat Who Saved Books, and anyone who has had to recover from a broken heart.

PRAISE FOR DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP:
'Brims with genuine charm . . . evokes powerful feelings that any book lover will recognize' Japan Times
'Ozawa's translation gracefully captures the author's whimsical and tender voice. Yagisawa has the right touch for lifting a reader's mood' Publishers Weekly
'Readers will want to linger in this world' Booklist
'A familiar romance about books and bookstores, told with heart and humor' Kirkus
'A slender book, but one rich in experience, exactly like the tiny, crammed Morisaki bookshop itself' New York Journal of Books

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAPA Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786583253
• Artikelnr.: 70227267

Autorenporträt

Satoshi Yagisawa was born in Chiba, Japan, in 1977. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, his debut novel, was originally published in 2009 and won the Chiyoda Literature Prize.

Rezensionen

"Ozawa's translation gracefully captures the author's whimsical and tender voice. Yagisawa has the right touch for lifting a reader's mood." - Publishers Weekly

"The unadorned simplicity of Takako's voice is anything but subtle, but it's somehow winning in its guilelessness . . . . Days at the Morisaki Bookshop draws a strong connection between the empathy unleashed by great literature and Takako's growing sense of self-confidence and well-being." - NPR

"The book's vibe makes it pleasant company for an afternoon in the park with a snack." - Los Angeles Times

"Yagisawa's prose is clean and direct even as he describes the Morisaki Bookshop and the city that surrounds it with extraordinary care and detail. The characters are also compelling, but it is really the setting and the atmosphere that stand out in this novel. Readers will want to linger in this world. They will want more when this concise tale ends." - Booklist

"Ozawa's translation preserves the drollness and buoyancy of Takako's first-person narrative of small pleasures and mysteries. A familiar romance about books and bookstores, told with heart and humor." - Kirkus Reviews

"A slender book, but one rich in experience, exactly like the tiny, crammed Morisaki bookshop itself." - New York Journal of Books

"Steeped in the ambience of a used bookstore as it is in the culture of reading." - Yahoo News

"Thought-provoking, sincere, and honest." - The Uncorked Librarian