days at the Morisaki bookshop
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The first Japanese book I read, translated to English, was The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino. I had heard and lot about this book and so gave it a go and was I in for a ride. The story is about a mother and daughter, Yasuko and Misato who accidentally kill Yauko’s ex-husband…
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Days At The Morisaki Book is a Japanese language fiction written by Satoshi Yagisawa and translated to English by Eric Ozawa. It follows the journey of Takako and her days spent at her uncle’s bookshop, The Morisaki Bookshop. The bookshop deals in old Japanese books. “It’s only in secondhand books that you can savor encounters…