![]() Some even take on physical characteristics of these birds, laying eggs and scattering droppings all over the town. In Pigeonitis every resident bar one starts clucking and cooing like a pigeon. Why? “It’s a secret,” he tells her.Īs the book progresses, we get more into the realm of surrealism and magical realism. He takes up residence in the narrator’s home, dancing naked around the room after a shower. The Secret relates an encounter with a small bossy child who lives under a tree. The first story gives a taste of the peculiar atmosphere that pervades the book. This is no cosy, “normal” neighbourhood however - almost every character we meet or every situation described is strange in some degree. Hiromi Kawakami delivers a collection of 36 stories featuring the people and places of a Tokyo community as seen through the eyes of an unnamed female narrator. ![]() People From My Neighbourhood was a perplexing reading experience. ![]()
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