Author guide
Satoshi Yagisawa Books in Order
Satoshi Yagisawa is a Japanese novelist born in Chiba Prefecture in 1977 and a graduate of Nihon University College of Art. His debut novel, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, won the Chiyoda Literature Prize and began the internationally translated Morisaki Bookshop series. He also wrote the three-volume Jun Kissa Torunka series, the standalone novel Kimi to Kuraseba, the linked short-story collection Pension Wakeatte, and the novel Maneki-yu. His fiction commonly explores books, cafés, hospitality, human connection, and emotional renewal.
Satoshi Yagisawa's Newest Book
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
The internationally recognized debut and first volume of the Morisaki Bookshop series.
Pension Wakeatte
A recent standalone work that presents Yagisawa's characteristic healing fiction in linked stories.
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Books by series
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Morisaki Bookshop
A two-volume literary fiction series centered on the people and books connected with the Morisaki second-hand bookshop in Tokyo.
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Jun Kissa Torunka
A three-volume series about the customers and community of the traditional café Torunka.
Outside the series