English Summary/英文概要： Everything is very familiar and yet nothing is normal in Mats Kempe’s new short stories. A literary agent shows up in a school yard and offers some teens participation in a series of novels about vampires, a victim of bullying is brooding on his revenge when he discovers that the teachers keep miniature clones of the students in glass jars in the basement of the school, some young people are infected by a mysterious illness and slowly turn into birds. In The Animated town, where all seventeen texts unfold, fiction takes hold of the lives of people and puts them in difficult situations, but they try to defend themselves and strike back, get away from the one holding the pen, the author of the stories. With elements of fantasy and science fiction mixed with painfully recognizable scenes and environments Mats Kempe, who has been praised as a short story master, depicts the feeling of being unable to control your life – that someone else is writing your story.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 你是一個人物還是真正的人?你是被想像出來的，還是真實的?在這座動畫城市裡，人們既可以是被想像出來的，也可以是真實的!在這裡住著的貌似是普通的人，但他們的生活卻是被編劇所控制的。因為不同的書裡情節的需要，人們轉換來轉換去，一會兒成了惡霸的受害者，一會兒消失了，一會兒又變形了。他們說的並不是自己的話。不過， 就連編劇也是被人控制的－被公司控制。可是人們想要自由，到處都在發生著越獄事件。肯佩是瑞典最好的短篇小說家之一，他用17個短篇，建造了一個自己的宇宙，裡面充滿科幻、幻想、反烏托邦、元小說等等幽默的靈光。同時這些短篇小說也殘酷地反映了現實的日常生活，有很多讓人感同身受的內容。