![]() ![]() The book is a collection of very short stories of a neighbourhood very odd one thou, with a collage made of sweets a town full of odd characters and time has a fluid nature as some stories are immediate other last decades. The child in the story the secret lives under a cloth under a tree Are you playing hide and seek or something? It shook its head vigorousily from side to side. I couldn’t tell if it was a girl or a boy. “What’s the big idea?” Thwe child glared at me, It had narrow eyes but thick eyebrows. The book is narrated by an unnamed narrator.Ī white cloth was lying at the foot of zelkova tree, When I walked over and picked it up, I saw a child underneath. ![]() ![]() One of the first \i found was this very short collection of micro-stories from Hiromi Kawakami who is one of those writers who I had read when she had her debut book out here 9 years ago but haven’t got back to even though I like the Briefcase when I reviewed it so it felt like it was time to try her books again and this was the perfect afternoon read and the second book for this years January in Japan reads. I decided to go to the library for the first time in a long time as I thought I had a fine left from pre-Covoid as I had tried to order some books the other week but when I went in I must have paid the fine at the time it was just the card needed an update it was fun to browse again it had been to long and with the Booker international longlist coming up I will be trying to find some books I haven’t read before. People from my Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami ![]()
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