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Publisher: Bloomsbury
Author: Hwang Bo-reum
ISBN: 9781639732425
Year: 2024
Format: Hardcover
Fiction
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
by
Hwang Bo-reum
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by
Hwang Bo-reum
Reviews
"[This book] suggests that finding daily satisfaction is itself a serious job... Hwang explores how a person might choose to counter workism without rejecting work entirely, and how a meaningful life might be built by applying oneself to even the most pleasurable pastimes"
The Atlantic
Summary
Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, she knows she should feel successful, but all she feels is drained. Yet an abandoned dream nags at her, and in a leap of faith, she leaves her old life behind. After quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeongju moves to a small residential neighborhood outside the city, where she opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop.
For the first few months all Yeongju does is cry, but the long hours in the shop also give her time to mull over what makes a good bookseller and store. As she starts to read hungrily, host author events, and develop her own bookselling philosophy, she eases into her new setting. Surrounded by friends, writers, and the books that connect them all, she finds her new story as the Hyunam-dong Bookshop transforms into an inviting space for lost souls to rest, heal, and remember it's never too late to scrap the plot and start again.