Author: Kim Ho-Yeon.
The Centro Cultural Coreano presents the novel La Asombrosa tienda de la señora Yeom (Mrs. Yeom’s Amazing Shop) on 12 February at 19:00 at the Librería La Mistral in Madrid (Travesía del Arenal, 2), through an exclusive and exciting talk with its acclaimed author, Kim Ho-Yeon. Free admission without prior booking
The moving, delicate story of a man who has lost everything but the strength to find himself. Dokgo lives on the streets and sleeps in Seoul station. Once he had a job, a house, a family, but one day he lost everything. Even his memory. When he finds a purse, he decides to give it to its owner, Mrs Yeom, a middle-aged ex-teacher who runs a small shop open around the clock. To thank her, the woman invites him to eat at her place whenever he wants, and not only that: when she needs to fill a vacancy on the night shift, she offers him the job. Thanks to his new job, Dokgo, sometimes clumsy, sometimes silent, begins to help many people in the neighbourhood. The contact with others will bring back his memory and a new reason to live. Warm and moving, Mrs Yeom’s Amazing Shop is a hope-filled read. It has been the best-selling novel in Korea with more than one million copies and has become an international bestseller.
The writer of this book, Kim Ho-Yeon, originally debuted as a film scriptwriter, but now showcases his extraordinary literary skills through his magnificent novels, which have caused a furore in South Korea, and his work has given birth to the “Healing Genre”, a category that refers to those stories that are comforting and hopeful for everyday life.
Páginas: 256
Editorial: DUOMO EDICIONES
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
ISBN: 9788419834027
Precio: 18 euros
