 Fumiya visits a bookshop near Tokyo hoping to find a book for his ill father

'The Friday Bookshop' by Sawako Natori 

About: Fumiya visits a bookshop near Tokyo hoping to find a book for his ill father. He discovers a café and a hidden underground book vault, then begins working at the shop. Through its owners, visitors, and recommended books, he discovers how reading can connect people and help them through life.

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About: A young French photographer travels to Palestine to report on the bombings in the Gaza Strip. One morning, during a ceasefire, he wanders far from his hotel into the narrow alleys of the city. Roaming aimlessly, he stumbles across a bookseller sitting on the doorstop of his shop—an old man, surrounded by stacks of books. As the photographer raises his camera, the bookseller calls out to him and asks him to listen to his story, not simply take his picture.&nbsp;The story that unfolds is one that encompasses exile and imprisonment, activism and political disillusionment, the joys of love and art and watching your children grow up and thrive, and the tragedies that tear your loved ones from you. Each event is tied to the book that helped him understand and, in some cases, survive it, from Milan Kundera to Frantz Fanon, to Umberto Eco, to Ernest Hemingway, among many others. There's a saying that when an old man dies a library burns, and it's this very library that the bookseller opens and describes.

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The Man Who Read Books by Rachid Benzine, Sam Taylor  (Translator)

About: Two young men named Jack meet during a tech internship. One is the son of a wealthy company founder; the other comes from a working-class family and has worked hard to get there. Their friendship turns competitive as their careers and lives unfold, testing their loyalties and ambitions.

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Tiger’s Mouth by Lucy Tan

About: The Barnes family is under strain: Dickie’s car business is failing, Imelda is selling her jewelry, Cass is struggling through school, and PJ is considering running away. The story traces their troubles back through family history and an infamous wedding-day bee sting.

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The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

About: The Flynn family is in turmoil after Catherine and Bud’s open marriage reaches a breaking point. Their daughters are each caught up in troubles of their own, while youngest daughter Harper’s suspicions about a local billionaire draw the family into a possible conspiracy.&nbsp;

'The Friday Bookshop' by Sawako Natori

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