{"product_id":"people-from-my-neighborhood-stories","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.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41875183894603,"sku":"9781593767112","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/5645\/2427\/files\/imageloader_4d2e2040-77db-47e9-a20c-ac0de7b97da8.jpg?v=1762333973","url":"https:\/\/xiabooks.org\/products\/people-from-my-neighborhood-stories","provider":"XIA Books \u0026 Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}