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  • 2024

Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop

Kenji Ueda, (1969-)

Kenji Ueda, (1969-), Emily Balistrieri

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Hidden away in a corner of the Ginza neighbourhood is a venerable stationery shop. To venture inside is to find everything your stationery-loving heart desires, from the most delicate paper to fountain pens that fit exactly to the shape of your hand to gorgeously coloured inks. The shop owner intuits your every need, inviting you to take a seat at a small wooden table on the top floor, where you'll find the words flowing, helping you unlock repressed memories, secret longings and your own mysteries. To this shop comes a young company employee, uncertain in his career and needing a connection back to his past; the hostess of an elegant club; the vice-captain of a high-school archery team, an ageing businessman and a formerly homeless sushi chef. With impeccable manners and a warm demeanour, the shop owner helps each of them with more than just their stationery needs.

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On loan until: 06/Sep/25 Rideau Heights Branch Fiction SF Ueda
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Title Statement Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop / Kenji Ueda ; translated by Emily Balistrieri.
Author Ueda, Kenji, 1969-
Additional Contributors Ueda, Kenji,1969-
Balistrieri, Emily
Publication London: Manilla Press,2024.
Extent of Item 217 pages ;
ISBN 9781786584649 (trade paperback)
Other Number pr08024461
General Notes "Write a letter, heal your heart"--Cover.
Translation of Ginza Shihōdō bunbōguten, Tokyo: Shogakukan Inc, 2022.
Languages In English, translated from the Japanese.
Summary Hidden away in a corner of the Ginza neighbourhood is a venerable stationery shop. To venture inside is to find everything your stationery-loving heart desires, from the most delicate paper to fountain pens that fit exactly to the shape of your hand to gorgeously coloured inks. The shop owner intuits your every need, inviting you to take a seat at a small wooden table on the top floor, where you'll find the words flowing, helping you unlock repressed memories, secret longings and your own mysteries. To this shop comes a young company employee, uncertain in his career and needing a connection back to his past; the hostess of an elegant club; the vice-captain of a high-school archery team, an ageing businessman and a formerly homeless sushi chef. With impeccable manners and a warm demeanour, the shop owner helps each of them with more than just their stationery needs.
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By Topic Interpersonal relations--Fiction
Stationery trade--Fiction
Selling--Fiction--Stationery
By Location Japan--Fiction
By Genre Magic realist fiction
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