From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction.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: Hiromi Kawakami
From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction.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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Reviewed by JuliaA very peculiar little book full of weird and wicked people with wonderful and absurd stories to live through. A neighborhood thriving on magical realism. A good read if you love your what-did-I-just-read-books. “For us girls, the princess was like a figure from a storybook. Raised by mice, wooed by a frog when she came of age, she ran away to escape him. Following many hardships, she met a prince and married. She left him in the end, and for the next fifty years lived a life of unrestricted freedom and luxury, then became an underworld figure, until, tiring of that one day, she suddenly dropped out of sight, taking pains to conceal her whereabouts. Word spread she had died; yet now, after many years, she had come to our neighborhood, far from the prince and the gangsters searching for her. “Her life is perfect, don’t you think?”” “Kanae and I wanted to grow breasts as quickly as possible so that we could fight aliens, wicked religious sects and other forces of evil.”