Have you heard of the book ‘What You Are Looking For Is In The Library’?
This Japanese bestselling novel has to be on your Aug-Sept reading list
Published 17.08.23, 09:34 AM
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“What are you looking for?”
What do you tell your librarian when she asks you this?
Sayuri Komachi might have book recommendations that might change your life. Intrigued? Then you have to get your hands on the Japanese bestselling novel What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama. A librarian suggests books to five customers. But these five people are not just bibliophiles with no frown in sight, visiting a library. They are, incidentally, at critical junctures of their lives. Sayuri, the librarian, has an impeccable sense of knowing what the person on the other side of the counter needs.
This book takes us back to the world of community libraries, of the smell of books and shelves full of pages — new and old. It takes us back to the time when sitting in a library or borrowing books from one was one of the important highlights of our lives. Meeting new people or observing other readers, checking the many stamps on the books, marvelling at how the librarian just remembers which book is where — here’s a toast to those sepia days. What You Are Looking For Is In The Library is as introspective and it is reflective.
