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People From My Neighbourhood
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People From My Neighbourhood
From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, here is a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction.
From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, here is a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction
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Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it watch you while you sleep. Keep it safe, you never know when you might need it.
In Kawakami's super short palm of the hand stories the world is never quite as it should be: a small child lives under a sheet near his neighbour's house for thirty years; an apartment block leaves its visitors with strange afflictions, from fast-growing beards to an ability to channel the voices of the dead; an old man has two shadows, one docile, the other rebellious; two girls named Yoko are locked in a bitter rivalry to the death.
Small but great, you'll find great delight spending time with the people in this neighbourhood.
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People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami has been described as beguiling, with a strangeness that feels culturally rooted. The prose is noted for being deft and funny in a light translation, making it an intriguing, compelling, and humorous read. The interlinked short stories resemble fairy tales, offering magic and occasional macabre elements, while maintaining a clean and unique narrative style.
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ISBN: 9781846276996
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 August 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Books
Contributors:
- Translated by Ted Goossen
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 7.0mm
Width: 111.0mm
Height: 178.0mm
Weight: 75g
Pages: 96
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About the Author
HIROMI KAWAKAMI is one of Japan's most popular contemporary novelists, famous for her offbeat literary fiction. She was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1996 and her novel Strange Weather in Tokyo was shortlisted for both the Man Asian Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and has been translated into thirteen languages. She is also the author of The Nakano Thrift Shop and The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino.
Ted Goossen is Professor of Japanese Literature at York University in Toronto and has translated Haruki Murakami among others.
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