The library of hidden dreams

Five people, very different from each other, cross the threshold of a small library in the heart of Tokyo. Everyone is at a crossroads in their lives. A young sales assistant in a department store who wants to acquire new skills and succeed in her new life in the capital; a thirty-five-year-old accountant for a furniture company who dreams of opening her own antique shop; a conscientious ex-magazine manager who has lost her job due to motherhood and struggling to combine her professional expectations with raising a child • a thirty-year-old unemployed, with an untapped talent in painting, who has lost his confidence and feels like a burden on his family • a retiree who doesn't know how to spend his abundant free time and is looking for new interests. Sayuri Komachi, the enigmatic librarian, will recommend each of them a book that is far from what they had in mind to read. This very unexpected reading will make them wonder what the deeper meaning of life is and give them the key to making their dreams come true. The library of hidden dreams is a hymn to libraries and librarians, the unseen heroes who listen with their sensitive antennae to the deepest needs of readers, and of course to books, which, no matter how unexpectedly they find themselves in our hands, have the power to transform our life.

"The question: 'What are you looking for?' often brings tears to the eyes of Michiko Aoyama's characters, as well as the reader. This is perhaps the most important question that can be asked by a library, a book, possibly even life itself. New York Times
"Aoyama sensitively and gracefully unfolds the stories of library patrons, offering hope and joy to those at a critical time in their lives." Kirkus
"You enjoy it from the first to the last page! A book full of hope, where all dreams can come true." Daily Mail

Translation: Tseliu Angeliki

Pages: 264
Height (cm) & Width (cm): 21 X 14