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Yeong-ju is burned out. She leaves behind her old life—quits her high-flying career and divorces her husband—and opens a bookshop in a quaint residential neighbourhood in Seoul. Surrounded by books, she finds new meaning in life as the bookshop morphs into an inviting space for hurt and lost souls to rest, heal and learn about what is truly important in life.

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9781526662262

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'An incredibly exciting debut novel. At once gentle and invigorating. I devoured it' * Sarah Crossan *

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HWANG BO-REUM studied Computer Science and worked as a software engineer in Seoul, before leaving to become a writer. She is the author of several essay collections; I Read Every Day, I Tried Kickboxing for the First Time and This Distance is Perfect. 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. Her prose translations have appeared in The Southern Review, The Common, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture and more.

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