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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa , Eric Ozawa
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This is a story where the magic of books, the passion for simple and beautiful things, and Japanese elegance unite to touch our souls and hearts.
We are in Jimbocho, Tokyo's bookshop district, a paradise for readers. Here, time is not measured in the same way, and tranquility contrasts with the bustle of the nearby subway and the immense modern buildings that draw straight lines across the sky.
But there are those who don't know this neighborhood. Takako, a 25-year-old girl with a somewhat gray existence, knows where it is but rarely comes here. However, Jimbocho is home to the Morisaki bookstore, which has been in the family for three generations: a tiny space in an old wooden building. Thus, we are introduced to the realm of Satoru, Takako's eccentric uncle. Satoru is the opposite of Takako, who, ever since the boy she was in love with told her he was marrying someone else, hasn't left the house.
It is then that her uncle offers her the first floor of Morisaki to live in. Takako, who reads so little, suddenly finds herself living among precarious piles of books, having to talk to customers who ask her unusual questions.
Amidst increasingly passionate conversations about literature, a meeting in a cafe with a boy as strange as he is shy, and unexpected revelations about Satoru's love story, Takako gradually discovers a way of speaking and being with others that starts with books and reaches the heart. A purer, more authentic, and deeply intimate way of living, which leaves behind the fears of confrontation and disillusionment.
We are in Jimbocho, Tokyo's bookshop district, a paradise for readers. Here, time is not measured in the same way, and tranquility contrasts with the bustle of the nearby subway and the immense modern buildings that draw straight lines across the sky.
But there are those who don't know this neighborhood. Takako, a 25-year-old girl with a somewhat gray existence, knows where it is but rarely comes here. However, Jimbocho is home to the Morisaki bookstore, which has been in the family for three generations: a tiny space in an old wooden building. Thus, we are introduced to the realm of Satoru, Takako's eccentric uncle. Satoru is the opposite of Takako, who, ever since the boy she was in love with told her he was marrying someone else, hasn't left the house.
It is then that her uncle offers her the first floor of Morisaki to live in. Takako, who reads so little, suddenly finds herself living among precarious piles of books, having to talk to customers who ask her unusual questions.
Amidst increasingly passionate conversations about literature, a meeting in a cafe with a boy as strange as he is shy, and unexpected revelations about Satoru's love story, Takako gradually discovers a way of speaking and being with others that starts with books and reaches the heart. A purer, more authentic, and deeply intimate way of living, which leaves behind the fears of confrontation and disillusionment.
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页数/Page: 160