Inconvenient convenience store by Kim Ho-yeon Cherry Blossom Edition Korean Ver

Page 268 | 332g | 135*200*20mm
Published Date: April 21, 2021
Book the Year Award book, Best Selling Book, 


Book introduction

The origin of K-healing novels that provide the best fun and emotion

***No. 1 overall bestseller in major bookstores
***National Library of Korea 2022 Book of the Year
***Book of the Year in 37 cities nationwide
***Copyright exported to 18 overseas countries
* **During the critically acclaimed performance of the play [Inconvenient Convenience Store],

there is a convenience store that I keep wanting to go to even though it is inconvenient!
A night at a convenience store to console the difficult day of life
The butterfly effect of laughter and emotion that started with an unidentified part-time job
『Mangwon-dong Brothers』 Kim Ho-yeon's 'Neighborhood Story' Season 2

Everyday reality after debuting with 『Mangwon-dong Brothers』, winner of the 2013 World Literature Award for Excellence Kim Ho-yeon, a writer who has built up a unique world of works, goes back and forth between light-hearted works that depict with wit and thriller genres that unravel human's inner desires with ingenious imagination. His fifth full-length novel, “Inconvenient Convenience,” has been published. 『Inconvenient Convenience』 is a work that warmly and humorously captures the inner feelings and joys and sorrows of the lives of our neighbors living in difficult times, set in a small convenience store located at the corner of an alley in Cheongpa-dong. Just as 『Mangwon-dong Brothers』 made good use of the experiential geography of the space called Mangwon-dong to elicit pleasant fun and sympathy, this time, another exciting 'neighborhood story' was created by vividly capturing the synesthesia of Cheongpa-dong, an old neighborhood in Seoul.

The story begins when a man named Dokgo, who was living homeless in Seoul Station, one day picked up the wallet of a woman in her 70s and ended up working a part-time night job at a convenience store run by the woman. This big, bear-like man cannot remember his past due to alcoholic dementia, and his speech is slurred and his actions are slow, making people wonder if he can deal with customers properly. But surprisingly, not only is he quite good at his job, but he also strangely captivates the people around him. As he catches on, he becomes a dependable worker who guards the convenience store at night.

As befits the work of a writer who is skilled at depicting realistic characters and the interactions between them in a point-and-shoot manner, in this novel, characters with unique personalities and stories appear one after another, bickering with each other and forming strange relationships. Led by Ms. Yeom, a convenience store owner who retired from teaching history at a high school and whose teacher instincts kick in in everything, Si-hyeon, a part-time job seeker in her 20s, and Ms. Oh, a part-timer in her 50s, eat Cham Cham Cham (sesame ramen, tuna kimbap, Chamisul) at an outdoor table every night. ) Gyeong-man, an office worker who relieves the stress of the day by drinking alone on a set; In-kyung, a playwright in his 30s who came to Cheongpa-dong to write with the determination that it will be his last time; Min-sik, the son of Mrs. Yeom, who sees an opportunity to sell out the convenience store; They are Kwak, a private detective who is looking into the background of . Each of them, who is burdened with the difficult burden of life and realistic problems, observes Dokgo from their own perspective, and the misunderstandings, confrontations, conflicts and reversals, understanding and empathy that occur in the process often make them burst into laughter, and at some point, their eyes become red with tears. Make them lose. In this way, the small convenience store in the alley went from being an extremely inconvenient place to becoming a special space to share laughter and comfort in a difficult life.


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