At træde på en slange pyntegenstande Over five years

Over five years

In all its sensuality

and exuberance

A children's poster with a zebra as a motif on a beautiful and subdued background

At træde på en slange pyntegenstande Over five yearsHiromi Kawakami (1958) is a master of magical, or perhaps rather mythical, realism, and writes narratives where the magical, the mythical, and the everyday are depicted with such ease and straightforwardness that the distinction between them is blurred and ceases to exist. By letting her characters live with a snake that assumes human form as it pleases, or by letting them enlarge, shrink, disappear, she gives her very own interpretation of the human