{"product_id":"people-from-my-neighborhood-stories-9781593767112","title":"People from My Neighborhood: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eNominated for the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of the internationally bestselling \u003ci\u003eStrange Weather in Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\" (\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003ePeople from My Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHiromi Kawakami \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Tokyo in 1958. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eKamisama \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eGod\u003c\/i\u003e), was published in 1994. In 1996, she was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for \u003ci\u003eHebi o Fumu\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eTread on a Snake\u003c\/i\u003e) and in 2001 she won the Tanizaki Prize for her novel \u003ci\u003eSensei no Kaban\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eStrange Weather in Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e), which became an international bestseller. \u003ci\u003eStrange Weather in Tokyo \u003c\/i\u003ewas shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 International Foreign Fiction Prize. Kawakami has contributed to editions of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e in both the UK and Japan and is one of Japan's most popular contemporary novelists.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50593359560978,"sku":"9781593767112","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_62951bd9-ba3a-4dd0-b455-ec19da5fe97b.jpg?v=1732115676","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/people-from-my-neighborhood-stories-9781593767112","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}