num_pages: 121
description: From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythicalfairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naif magical and frequently veering into the macabre (Financial Times).A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree; a schoolgirl who keeps dolls brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows one docile and 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 and everydaythe lunch menu at a tiny drinking place called the Love the color and shape of the roof of the tax officeslip into accounts of duels prophetic dreams revolutions and visitations from ghosts and gods. In twenty-six palm of the hand storiesfictions small enough to fit in the palm of ones handHiromi Kawakami creates a universe ruled by mystery and transformation.
language: English
title: People From My Neighbourhood
publisher: Granta Books