Morisaki Shoten No Hibi (Shogakukan Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Takako is devastated when Hideaki, whom she has been dating for a year, suddenly tells her that he is going to marry another woman. Since it was a workplace romance, she also quits her job. Takako receives a phone call from her uncle Satoru, who runs an antiquarian bookstore in Jimbocho, the town of books. Takako has always disliked her aloof uncle, but when he asks her to live in his store and help him with his business, her feet naturally turn to Jimbocho. Set in a secondhand bookstore district, the story depicts one woman's growth in humorous and pathos-filled strokes. (Winner of the Grand Prize of the 3rd Chiyoda Literary Award. Includes a newly written sequel novel ( Momoko-san's Return ).

貴子は交際して一年の英明から、突然、他の女性と結婚すると告げられ、失意のどん底に陥る。職場恋愛であったために、会社も辞めることに。恋人と仕事を一遍に失った貴子のところに、本の街・神保町で、古書店を経営する叔父のサトルから電話が入る。飄々とした叔父を苦手としていた貴子だったが、「店に住み込んで、仕事を手伝って欲しい」という申し出に、自然、足は神保町に向いていた。古書店街を舞台に、一人の女性の成長をユーモラスかつペーソス溢れる筆致で描く。「第三回ちよだ文学賞」大賞受賞作品。書き下ろし続編小説「桃子さんの帰還」も収録。