![]() ![]() Suddenly, I felt like I was caught up in a sudden whirlwind – without knowing where it came from, it enveloped me and held on to me with intense power, until I had finished reading the last page. I couldn’t seem to connect to the wondrous, sometimes eerie tales of the people in this neighbourhood.īut then, something strange happened. ![]() After reading the first couple of stories, I was certain that my scepticism had been justified. I didn’t quite know what to expect when this tiny book arrived by mail (although I instantly fell in love with the format and the cover) it wasn’t my first book by Hiromo Kawakami, but my first foray into flash fiction – I guess one can say that I approached this book with caution, but also a healthy dose of curiosity. Readers will meet an old man with two shadows that keep fighting each other a princess with a dubious, murderous past a young girl engaging in the manipulation of people’s memories a doctor who insists that some people are hatched from eggs and a greeting squad with the ability to halt time. It is filled with idiosyncratic characters that are involved in the most curious incidents. This is not your typical Japanese neighbourhood. Hiromi Kawakami’s book “People from my neighbourhood,” translated from Japanese to English by Ted Goossen, is a collection of flash fiction – 36 loosely intertwined stories on 121 pages that can be read in one sitting. ![]() A collection of flash fiction about the people who live in the main character’s neighbourhood.įor those of you who don’t know: flash fiction is a story told in less than 1000 words. ![]()
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