From New York Times: The objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers who handle them. But like those staff and customers, they hold many secrets. If examined carefully, they show the signs of innumerable extravagances, of immeasurable pleasure and pain, and of the deep mysteries of the human heart.Hitomi, the inexperienced young woman who works the register, has fallen for her coworker, the oddly reserved Takeo. Unsure of how to attract his attention, she seeks advice from her employer’s sister, Masayo, whose sentimental entanglements make her a somewhat unconventional guide. But thanks in part to Masayo, Hitomi will come to realize that love, desire, and intimacy require acceptance not only of idiosyncrasies but also of the delicate waltz between open and hidden secrets, in this novel from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo that “captures an untranslatable Japanese mood”

I am bringing the book to a BookCrossing meet-up at Nationalbiblioteket, and if nobody takes it from there, I will release it at Solli plass.

The book came home for the meet-up with me, looking forward to reading it!

That was a strange but sweet little story about the everyday lifes and woes of customers and employees at the Nakano thrift shop.

Coming with me to the meetup on Bookcrossing Day :-)

The book went home with me from meetup. Thank you! :-)

The book is now read, it was the second book I'd read by this author. I enjoyed both of them, this one was more realistic than the first one, it was a charming and interesting story from a country far far away. Now the book will return to meetup and hopefully find another new reader there.

The book found a new reader at a Swedish-Norwegian meetup in Gothenburg! 😃

Thanks for sharing, I´m looking forward to reading another novel by Kawakami.

Discovered that I have this book in Swedish so I´ll release it on fika with fellow BC:ers.

Sounds interesting. It had to come home with me from today's meet up in Stockholm.

faxaboken wants to read it after me.

I liked it. Almost a meditative read.

Will be released to faxaboken at the next Stockholm Meet up.

Enjoy!

Fångad på bookcrossing-fika!