Lee Mi-ye

|| THE NO.1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD ||It has been a year since Penny first walked through the doors of DallerGut Dream Department Store, and surviving a year at the store means one thing . . . She is now an official employee of the dream industry! She can finally take the express commuter train to the Company District, where all the dream production companies are located and discover how all raw dream materials and testing equipment are produced.But the Company District is not quite what she expected, it hides the darker underbelly of the magical industry that Penny thought she was a part of. Penny discovers the Civil Complaint Center, full of people filing complaints about their dreams. She also learns about the regular customers who have stopped coming to the store. As she gets to the bottom of each complaint, she begins to expand her horizons, transforming from just selling dreams to understanding what lies in the hearts of their lost regulars. Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store delves deeper into the dream industry and its customers. Why do some of them buy a dream and never return? Will Penny and her colleagues be able to bring their regulars back?

Penny wohnt in einem ganz besonderen Dorf. Betreten kann man es nur, wenn man eingeschlafen ist. Dann gibt es viel zu sehen: An einem Food-Truck kann man schlaffördernde Naschereien kaufen. In einer dunklen Gasse hat Maxim, der Produzent der Albträume, seine Werkstatt. Ein geheimnisvoller Mann wohnt in einer Hütte in einem Schneegebirge, und Elfen entwerfen Träume, in denen man fliegen kann. Viele weitere Attraktionen erwarten die Schlafenden, der Kundenmagnet aber ist das Kaufhaus von Dollargut, in dem Penny hoch motiviert arbeitet. In dem fünfgeschossigen Holzbau wimmelt es von Kunden. Das Kaufhaus erfreut sich aber nicht nur bei Menschen, sondern auch bei Tieren höchster Beliebtheit. In jeder Etage kann man eine bestimmte Sorte von Träumen finden: teure und beliebte Träume, limited editions und Vorbestellungen, allgemeinere Träume mit kleinen alltäglichen Ereignissen wie Kurzreisen, einer Feier mit Freunden oder ein leckeres Essen, aber auch innovative Träume mit viel Action. Sogar für Kurzweiliges ist gesorgt: In der dritten Etage gibt es spezielle Träume für den Mittagsschlaf. Die Bezahlung erfolgt über die Gefühle, die die Kunden nach dem Traum haben. „Das Kaufhaus der Träume“ besteht aus mehreren Episoden, die die persönlichen Geschichten der Kunden und ausführliche Beschreibungen der Traumwelt beinhalten: So möchte eine Frau nur Träume kaufen, in denen der Mann vorkommt, für den sie heimlich Gefühle hegt. Ein Mann in einem Patientenhemd möchte einen ganz bestimmten Traum als Vorbestellung für seine Hinterbliebenen. Mithilfe der Träume gelingt es den Kunden, ihre Verletzungen zu heilen, ihre Sehnsüchte zu stillen oder ihre Ängste zu überwinden.

A whimsical, poignant novel about the inner workings of a department store that sells dreams 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; Agnap Coco, producer of special dreams; 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 dreams gets stolen during Penny's first week, we follow along with her as she tries to uncover the workings of this wonderfully whimsical world. A captivating story that will leave a lingering magical feeling in readers' minds, this is the first book in a bestselling duology for anyone exhausted from the reality of their daily life.

|| THE NO.1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD|| 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; Agnap Coco, producer of special dreams; Vigo Myers, an employee in the mystery department as well as the cast of curious, funny and strange clientele that regularly visit the store. When one of the most coveted and expensive dreams gets stolen during Penny's first week, we follow along with her as she tries to uncover the workings of this wonderfully whimsical world. A captivating story that will leave a lingering magical feeling in readers' minds, this is the first book in a best-selling duology for anyone exhausted from the reality of their daily life.