Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
by Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan
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Pub Date 26 Oct 2023 | Archive Date 30 Oct 2023
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Description
There was only one thing on her mind.
I must start a bookshop.
Yeong-ju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeong-ju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, divorces her husband, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop.
In a quaint neighbourhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeong-ju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married housewife, and the writer who sees something special in Yeong-ju - they all have disappointments in their past. The Hyunam-Dong Bookshop becomes the place where they all learn how to truly live.
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop is a heart-warming story about finding comfort and acceptance in your life - and the healing power of books.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781526662279 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 336 |
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Featured Reviews
Michelle W, Reviewer
Love love love this book! It's a cosy, heart warming, wholesome book set in a part of the world I love to read about.
Will be recommending this to everyone. It makes me smile when I think about it!
Erin D, Reviewer
This book is nothing short of a love letter to books, bookshops and all who love them
I empathise so much with ow protagonist, that I honestly Fred like she could have been based on me. I think all office-based, book loving nerds have dreamt of the bookstore they would run one day
This novel sympathetically portrays real, human characters with all their recognisably familiar flaws and worries. And a knowing, self aware nod that it is full of people just like you, dear reader.
This is not a novel full of twists and turns, reading this gives my soul the same gentle comforting feeling that a ware tea gives on a crisp autumn morning. We're immersing ourselves in the Hyunam-dong book shop not for an adrenaline rush, but to connect with a collection of characters and examine the mirror they hold up to ourselves.
Each of the characters comes to us a fully fledged, authentically flawed personality, struggling to reconnect with the world after burn-outs, breakdowns, divorces, and shocked awakenings from the monotony of the corporate world
It's not often I final a book I can wholesale recommend to all my reader friends,
This is one of them.
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