Welcome To The Hyunam Dong Bookshop Hobbies Toys Books Magazines

Welcome To The Hyunam Dong Bookshop Hobbies Toys Books Magazines “welcome to the hyunam dong bookshop” is a bit of a love letter to readers, book clubs, reviewers, bookstores, and authors. it follows yeong ju, a south korean woman who wants to get back to reading and opens a bookstore in hyunam dong, and things progress from there: to becoming a better reader, choosing which books to highlight, starting a bookclub, doing q&as with authors…. Welcome to the hyunam dong bookshop treats both grand and small dreams with respect while appreciating that we can find joy even in the fleeting present. if you feel uncertain about your path in life or your bonds with others, you may find as much comfort in this book as its characters do in the books that shape and change them.”.

Welcome To The Hyunam Dong Bookshop Hobbies Toys Books Magazines 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 that it's never too late to scrap the plot and start again. author hwang bo reum. number of pages 320. format cl. publisher bloomsbury. Welcome to the hyunam dong bookshop is her first novel, and was a bestseller in south korea. shanna tan is a singaporean translator working from korean, chinese and japanese into english. she was selected for two emerging literary translator mentorships in 2022, where she was mentored by anton hur and julia sanches. This book is touted as a heart warming korean sensation, and it completely lives up to that hype. full disclosure, i went into this book with practically no idea what it was about; also believing it to be a fantasy novel around a bookshop. that cannot be further from the truth, and that's totally okay. Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. then it all fell apart. burned out, yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high flying career, and follows her dream. she opens a bookshop. in a quaint neighbourhood in seoul, surrounded by books, yeongju and her customers take refuge.