Beguiling, with a strangeness that feels culturally rooted * Sunday Times * Deft and funny prose, in a feather-light translation by Ted Goossen, is the signature of Hiromi Kawakami's latest collection... an intriguing and compelling bitesize read... funny, full of heart * Arts Desk * Tempting as it is, People from My Neighbourhood is not a book to rush... The interlinking short stories in this collection are fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naļf, magical and frequently veering into the macabre... in a world where much is insubstantial... Kawakami's clean narrative style is very much her own * Financial Times * Despite its brevity, you won't forget these vividly drawn characters * Happy magazine * A surreal comedy delight... [ Kawakami] bends and breaks the rules of narration, plotting, and characterisation, and the end result is a vividly realised pocket universe filled with strange people who exist to shock us into laughter at every turn...An absolute joy * Books and Bao * Great fun and a pleasure to read * Tony's Reading List *