Books like The Second Chance Convenience Store
When a homeless man returns the purse she lost at Seoul Station, Mrs Yeom, a retired teacher who owns a struggling convenience store, offers him the night shift, though he remembers almost nothing about himself.
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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Burned out by her high-flying career, Yeongju opens a small bookshop in a residential Seoul neighbourhood and slowly gathers a barista, a knitting regular, a lonely teenager and others who need somewhere to be.
The Healing Season of Pottery
Burned out by her job as a television writer, Jungmin, thirty, has barely left her Seoul apartment in a year when she wanders into a small pottery studio and signs up for lessons.
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
Five Tokyo residents stuck at turning points in their work and lives find their way, one by one, to a community-centre library, where the librarian, Sayuri Komachi, hands each of them an unexpected book and a small felted gift.
The Great Passage
Mitsuya Majime, an awkward young publishing employee with a gift for words, is recruited to the dictionary department to help compile The Great Passage, a new dictionary its editors expect to take years.
Midaq Alley
The residents of a narrow Cairo alley during World War II, among them a beautiful young woman desperate to get out, chase money and love as the war changes the city around them.
The Easy Life in Kamusari
Fresh out of high school with no plans, Yuki Hirano is packed off by his teacher and his mother to a forestry training scheme in Kamusari, a remote mountain village with no phone signal where life runs on the seasons and the trees.
Marigold Mind Laundry
Jieun, born with powers she couldn't control, has lived many lives searching for the family she lost, and now opens a laundromat in a village of marigolds where people can wash the stains of painful memories from their hearts.
Sweet Bean Paste
Sentaro, an ex-convict working off a debt at a Tokyo dorayaki stall, reluctantly hires Tokue, a woman in her seventies with misshapen hands, and her homemade bean paste starts drawing customers to his counter.
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
In a Kyoto building that isn't on any map, the Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul sees only the patients who manage to find it, and its doctor sends each of them home with a prescription: a cat.
The Forest of Wool and Steel
Tomura, a quiet boy from a mountain village in Hokkaido, hears a piano tuner at work in his school gym and decides to become one, apprenticing himself to a small piano shop.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
When her boyfriend tells her he is marrying someone else, Takako quits her job and moves into the dusty room above her uncle Satoru's secondhand bookshop in Tokyo's Jimbocho book district, a place she has never cared about.
The Housekeeper and the Professor
A young housekeeper goes to work for a former mathematics professor whose memory, since an accident, lasts only eighty minutes; each morning she and her ten-year-old son are strangers to him again, and he greets them with numbers.