Display Shelf | Healing Fiction

by Melissa DeWild
Apr 10, 2024 | Filed in Reviews+

This genre of feel-good fiction has been a hit in Japan and South Korea. Share these English-language translations with patrons on a display shelf.

This genre of feel-good fiction has been a hit in Japan and South Korea. Share these English-language translations with patrons on a display shelf. Find the full list of 23 titles here.

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa, Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, The Healing Season of Pottery by Yeon Somin, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino, The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee, The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura

 

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