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川上弘美, 1958- author. / Kawakami, Hiromi, 1958- author.

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

First Soft Skull edition.

New York : Soft Skull, 2021.

©2020

xii, 159 pages ; 21 cm

"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.

Kawakami, Hiromi, 1958- -- Translations into English.

Neighbors -- Fiction.

Short stories, Japanese -- Translations into English.

Short stories.

Goossen, Ted, translator.

このあたりの人たち. English / Kono atari no hitotachi. English

Translation of: Kono atari no hitotachi.

"All the stories in this volume originally appeared in Monkey or its predecessor, Monkey business, edited by Motoyuki Shibata and published by Switch Publishing"--Title page verso.

In English, translated from the Japanese.

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