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  • Location: Korea

DallerGut Dream Department Store

DallerGut Dream Department Store

Why a Booktrail?

2023: Come to a mysterious store and village which only exist in your dreams

  • ISBN: 978-1035412730
  • Translator: Sandy Joosun Lee.
  • Genre: magical realism, Translated Fictioin

What you need to know before your trail

In a mysterious town that lies hidden in our collective subconscious, there’s a quaint little store where all kinds of dreams are sold …

Day and night, visitors both human and animal from all over the world shuffle in sleepily in their pyjamas, lining up to purchase their latest adventure. Each floor in the department store sells a special kind of dream, including nostalgic dreams about your childhood, trips you’ve taken, and delicious food you’ve eaten, as well as nightmares and more mysterious dreams.

In DallerGut Dream Department Store, we meet Penny an enthusiastic new hire; DallerGut, the flamboyant owner of the department store; Mrs. Weather, Penny’s reliable confidante; Vigo Myers, an employee in the mystery department as well as a cast of curious, funny and strange clientele who regularly visit the store.

When one of the most coveted and expensive forms of dream payment gets stolen during Penny’s first week, we follow along with her as she tries to uncover the workings of this wonderfully whimsical world.

Travel Guide

Korea

This is a Korean story but the setting is a fictional shopping mall and store in the land of your dreams.

Welcome to the Dallergut Department Store

This is the store where you go to shop for dreams. Every chapter holds a different dream and invites you to explore them. We meet those looking for different kinds of dreams – and see what dreams they are looking for and why.

This department store full of dreams is wonderfully evoked. If if looks half as good as that dreamy cover, then you will want to go there in your dreams too.

BookTrail Boarding Pass: DallerGut Dream Department Store

Destination: Korea   Author/guide: Miye Lee Departure Time: 2023

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