Mado No Aru Shoten Kara (Haru Ki Bunko)

[Machine Translation] "On a walk through the neighborhood, I finally found a bookstore with a window. Twenty-five years ago, at the age of twenty-eight, I would never have imagined that I would become the owner of a bookstore. I am deeply in touch with words, reading them, writing them, and living with them. This book of exquisite essays is now available in a new, beautifully bound edition with 50 pages of new essays on "The Ancient City of Kamakura, or the Place Where Life and Death Intersect," "Catholic Baptism," "Junichiro Tanizaki," and "Tetsuya Asada," among others.

「近所を散歩したとき、私はついに、窓のある書店を見つけたのだ。店内には一匹の猫がいる」―二十五年前、二十八歳のわたしは、まさか、自分が書店の店主になるとは想像だにしなかったはずだ。言葉と深く向かい合い、読み、書き、ともに生きる。作家・柳美里の血と肉になってきた書物とその心の遍歴―極上のエッセイ本に、「古都鎌倉、あるいは生と死の交錯する場所」「カトリックの洗礼式」「谷崎潤一郎」「阿佐田哲也」など五〇ページの新たなエッセイを加え、装いも美しく登場。