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People from My Neighborhood
Hiromi Kawakami, Ted Goossen (translation)Nominated for the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award
An NPR Best Book of the Year
"An eerie, surreal collection, absurd & funny, that fans of fabulism & magical realism will enjoy. The stories all come together to paint a portrait of a town where the lines between reality & magic are thin & the shadows hold all manner of surprises." — Leah Rachel von Essen, Book Riot
From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane & the mythical—”fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naïf, magical, & frequently veering into the macabre” (Financial Times).
A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree; a schoolgirl who keeps doll's brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows, one docile & one rebellious; a diplomat no one has ever seen who goes fishing at an artificial lake no one has ever heard of. These are some of the inhabitants of People from My Neighborhood.In their lives, details of the local & everyday—the lunch menu at a tiny drinking place called the Love, the color & shape of the roof of the tax office—slip into accounts of duels, prophetic dreams, revolutions, & visitations from ghosts & gods.
In twenty-six "palm of the hand" stories—fictions small enough to fit in the palm of one's hand & brief enough to allow for dipping in & out — Hiromi Kawakami creates a universe ruled by mystery & transformation.
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HIROMI KAWAKAMI was born in Tokyo in 1958. Her first novel, Kamisama (God), was published in 1994. In 1996, she was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for Hebi o Fumu (Tread on a Snake), & in 2001 she won the Tanizaki Prize for her novel Sensei no Kaban (Strange Weather in Tokyo aka The Briefcase), which became an international bestseller. Strange Weather in Tokyo was short-listed for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize & the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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