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People from my neighborhood : stories / Hiromi Kawakami ; translated from the Japanese by Ted Goossen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: New York : Soft Skull Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First Soft Skull editionDescription: xii, 159 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781593767112
  • 1593767110
Uniform titles:
  • Kono atari no hitotachi. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The secret -- Chicken hell -- Grandma -- The office -- Brains -- The crooner -- The school principal -- The love -- The juvenile delinquent -- The tenement -- The Hachirō lottery -- The magic spell -- Grandpa shadows -- The six-person apartments -- The rivals -- The elf -- The buriers -- Banana -- Lord of the flies -- The baseball game -- Torture -- Bass fishing -- Pigeonitis -- Sports day -- Fruit -- The white dove -- Eye medicine -- Weightlessness -- Hair -- Baby -- The family trade -- The bottomless swamp -- Falsification -- Refrigerator -- The shacks -- The empress.
Summary: "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 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 everyday-the lunch menu at a tiny drinking place called the Love, the color and shape of the roof of the tax office-slip into accounts of duels, prophetic dreams, revolutions, and visitations from ghosts and gods. In twenty-six "palm of the hand" stories-fictions small enough to fit in the palm of one's hand-Hiromi Kawakami creates a universe ruled by mystery and transformation."-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction KAWAKAMI HIROMI Available 33111010623383
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction KAWAKAMI HIROMI Available 33111010764773
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Nominated for the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award

From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo , a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythical--"fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naïf, 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 doll's 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 everyday--the lunch menu at a tiny drinking place called the Love, the color and shape of the roof of the tax office--slip into accounts of duels, prophetic dreams, revolutions, and visitations from ghosts and gods. In twenty-six "palm of the hand" stories--fictions small enough to fit in the palm of one's hand and brief enough to allow for dipping in and out--Hiromi Kawakami creates a universe ruled by mystery and transformation.

The secret -- Chicken hell -- Grandma -- The office -- Brains -- The crooner -- The school principal -- The love -- The juvenile delinquent -- The tenement -- The Hachirō lottery -- The magic spell -- Grandpa shadows -- The six-person apartments -- The rivals -- The elf -- The buriers -- Banana -- Lord of the flies -- The baseball game -- Torture -- Bass fishing -- Pigeonitis -- Sports day -- Fruit -- The white dove -- Eye medicine -- Weightlessness -- Hair -- Baby -- The family trade -- The bottomless swamp -- Falsification -- Refrigerator -- The shacks -- The empress.

"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 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 everyday-the lunch menu at a tiny drinking place called the Love, the color and shape of the roof of the tax office-slip into accounts of duels, prophetic dreams, revolutions, and visitations from ghosts and gods. In twenty-six "palm of the hand" stories-fictions small enough to fit in the palm of one's hand-Hiromi Kawakami creates a universe ruled by mystery and transformation."-- Provided by publisher.

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