Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric Ozawa

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric OzawaHidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo, is a book lover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second hand books,Twenty five year old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and joy of her uncle Satoru, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoko left him five years earlier. When Takako's boyfriend reveals

lyrical and dazzling

often absurd reality of living invisibly and undocumented

as together they searched for the exiled couple

a professor of genetics

With the Aboriginal Ordinances Act and the ‘White Australia’ policy as a backdrop

When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953

starting with a referendum

Their love of video games becomes a shared world -- of joy

and withdrawn

an anthropologist

In The Great War Carlyon has succeeded triumphantly in bringing back to life the essential character of the men of the First AIF in France

This is a time for gaining new perspectives