{"title":"Hanover Square","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"before-the-coffee-gets-cold-05-before-we-forget-kindness-by-toshikazu-kawaguchi","title":"Before the Coffee Gets Cold #05: Before We Forget Kindness by Toshikazu Kawaguchi","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: - The father who could not allow his daughter to get married - A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one - A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents - A wife holding a child with no name . . . They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold. Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before we forget kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50170122371385,"sku":"11843104","price":69.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0822\/6871\/7369\/files\/11843104.jpg?v=1738573564"},{"product_id":"apartment-women-by-gu-byeong-mo","title":"Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-mo","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the New York Times Notable author of The Old Woman with the Knife comes a bracingly original story of family, marriage and the cultural expectations of motherhood, about four women whose lives intersect in dramatic and unexpected ways at a government-run apartment complex outside Seoul\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she’s ready for a fresh start. Located on the outskirts of Seoul, the experimental community is a government initiative designed to boost the national birth rate. Like her neighbors, Yojin has agreed to have at least two more children over the next ten years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet, from the day she arrives, Yojin feels uneasy about the community spirit thrust upon her. Her concerns grow as communal child care begins and the other parents show their true colors. Apartment Women traces the lives of four women in the apartments, all with different aspirations and beliefs. Will they find a way to live peacefully? Or are the cultural expectations around parenthood stacked against them from the start?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA trenchant social novel from an award-winning author, Apartment Women incisively illuminates the unspoken imbalance of women’s parenting labor, challenging the age-old assumption that “it takes a village” to raise a child.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50243353870649,"sku":"11843687","price":89.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0822\/6871\/7369\/files\/11843687.jpg?v=1733893301"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.cziplee.com\/collections\/hanover-square.oembed","provider":"CzipLee Retail","version":"1.0","type":"link"}