Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movieâabout a young woman who loses everything but finds herselfâa cozy fiction tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books.
Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existenceâuntil the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces heâs been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takakoâs life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call from her distant uncle Satoru.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Days at the Morisaki Bookshop about? expand_more
The novel follows Takako, a young woman reeling from heartbreak, who moves into a room above her eccentric uncle's secondhand bookshop in Tokyo's Jimbocho district and slowly rediscovers her love of reading and life.
Who is this book for? expand_more
It is ideal for readers who enjoy cozy, healing Japanese fiction in the vein of bookshop and cafe novels, with themes of family, grief, and quiet personal growth.
Is this part of a series? expand_more
The book has a sequel, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, which continues Takako's story, but this volume can be read and enjoyed as a standalone novel.