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If there is one thing that is truly relative and means something different to everyone, it is happiness. What may be worthless or less important to you may be the world to someone else, happiness itself. Sometimes we chase an idea we believe to be our own happiness our whole lives, while it has been right in front of us all along, we just had to notice it. If we know what makes us happy and are willing to pay the price for it, then we can get what we want. There are literary works, novels that come into our hands for no reason, milestones, turning points in our fate, and sometimes things that hold us back. I believe that The Happiness Shop is one such book. Its author, Dávid Rozványi, who was not originally a writer, but an economist, wrote it in response to a strange request, in a shorter version, as a short story, and then the work took on an independent life. The novel born from the short story became a real bestseller, and the third edition is already sold out, waiting for a new edition. Since then, two more volumes have been published. “Every person desires happiness, but few know where and in what to look for it, and few know what price they have to pay for it. Somewhere, on Öreg Street in Buda, however, there is a strange shop, the Shop of Happiness, where an old Armenian knows the answer to every question and request…”