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People From my Neighborhood: Stories (in English)
Hiromi Kawakami
Synopsis "People From my Neighborhood: Stories (in English)"
Nominated for the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, 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" (Financial Times). 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 and brief enough to allow for dipping in and out--Hiromi Kawakami creates a universe ruled by mystery and transformation.
Hiromi Kawakami nació en Tokio en 1958. Se dedicó a la enseñanza hasta la publicación de su primer libro de relatos, Kamisama, por el que recibió el Premio Pascal. Desde entonces, se ha convertido en una de las escritoras más leídas y galardonadas de su país. En 1996 obtuvo el Premio Akutagawa por Hebi o Fumu y, en el 2000, el Premio Ito Sei y el Woman Writer’s por Abandonarse a la pasión. Un año más tarde ganó el prestigioso Premio Tanizaki por El cielo es azul, la tierra blanca (Alfaguara, 2017), posteriormente galardonada con el Man Asian Literary Prize y adaptada al cine con gran éxito. En castellano se han publicado, además, Algo que brilla como el mar, El señor Nakano y las mujeres, Manazuru, Vidas frágiles, noches oscuras, Amores imperfectos, Los amores de Nishino (Alfaguara, 2017) y De pronto oigo la voz del agua (Alfaguara, 2021).