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- People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami | Goodreads
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: naif, magical, and frequently veering into the macabre” (Financial Times)
- People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami — curiously bizarre
Hiromi Kawakami delivers a collection of 36 stories featuring the people and places of a Tokyo community as seen through the eyes of an unnamed female narrator This is no cosy, “normal” neighbourhood however — almost every character we meet or every situation described is strange in some degree
- People From My Neighborhood - Wikipedia
People From My Neighborhood (Japanese: このあたりの人たち, Hepburn: Kono Atari no Hito-tachi; lit 'People Around Here') is a 2016 short story collection by Hiromi Kawakami published by Switch Publishing [1] In thirty-six interlinked stories, the book explores the lives of people in a neighborhood outside of Tokyo [2]
- People From My Neighbourhood - amazon. com
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
- Summary of ‘People From My Neighbourhood’ by Hiromi Kawakami
The neighborhood is filled with oddities, such as a schoolgirl safeguarding doll’s brains and an old man with two distinct shadows Kawakami’s masterful storytelling provides a soft exploration of generational bonds, communal ties, and the absurdities of life
- r books on Reddit: Thoughts on Hiromi Kawakamis People From My . . .
I'm currently reading People From My Neighbourhood and I have finished 70% of it For some reason, if I don't stop myself, I can continue just getting swallowed by the book and reading story after story however it's just not the kind of a deep surrealistic plot but I'm surprisingly fine with just knowing just the least of each story that the
- Rumors, Aliens, and Disarray in “People From My Neighborhood”
In People From My Neighborhood, Hiromi Kawakami offers us a peek into the happenings both strange and mundane in a single town There’s an incredible breadth on display here, with stories of love and loss, legends come to life, and even greater mysteries left untold—all contained within a single neighborhood
- The Rupture
What makes People from My Neighborhood so notable is how Kawakami uses the absurd to offer us a deeper understanding of how puzzling and unknowable a person is
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