From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction
Hiromi Kawakami is one of Japan's most popular contemporary
novelists, famous for her offbeat literary fiction. She was awarded
the Akutagawa Prize in 1996 and her novel Strange Weather in Tokyo
was shortlisted for both the Man Asian Prize and the Independent
Foreign Fiction Prize and has been translated into thirteen
languages. She is also the author of The Nakano Thrift Shop
and The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino.
Ted Goossen is Professor of Japanese Literature at York University
in Toronto and has translated Haruki Murakami among others.
Beguiling, with a strangeness that feels culturally rooted * Sunday
Times *
Deft and funny prose, in a feather-light translation by Ted
Goossen, is the signature of Hiromi Kawakami's latest collection...
an intriguing and compelling bitesize read... funny, full of heart
* Arts Desk *
Tempting as it is, People from My Neighbourhood is not a book to
rush... The interlinking short stories in this collection are fairy
tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naif, magical and
frequently veering into the macabre... in a world where much is
insubstantial... Kawakami's clean narrative style is very much her
own * Financial Times *
Despite its brevity, you won't forget these vividly drawn
characters * Happy magazine *
A surreal comedy delight... [Kawakami] bends and breaks the rules
of narration, plotting, and characterisation, and the end result is
a vividly realised pocket universe filled with strange people who
exist to shock us into laughter at every turn...An absolute joy *
Books and Bao *
Great fun and a pleasure to read * Tony's Reading List *
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