Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

Hwang Bo-Reum

Translated by Shanna Tan

Having read it

★★★★★

Wonderful.

Life-affirming in its telling of a bookshop’s story that has a little intrigue, good characters and a dash of realism in amongst its moments of philosophy, critique, opinion and perspective.

A good passage

Walking out, he mulled over what she said. Learn to think well of ourselves. He turned around. The warm glow of the lights seemed to envelop the bookshop like a protective presence.