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The Bridegroom Was a Dog (New Directions Pearls)

2012-11-27 Fiction
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Release : 2012-11-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 370/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Bridegroom Was a Dog (New Directions Pearls) by : Yoko Tawada

Download or read book The Bridegroom Was a Dog (New Directions Pearls) written by Yoko Tawada. This book was released on 2012-11-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A schoolteacher tells her class a fable about a princess who promises her hand in marriage to a dog that has licked her bottom clean. Strangely, a doglike suitor then appears to court the teacher. Much to the chagrin of her friends, an odd romance ensues - simmering with secrets, chivalry, and sex.

Scattered All Over the Earth

2022-03-01 Fiction
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Release : 2022-03-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 297/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Scattered All Over the Earth written by Yoko Tawada. This book was released on 2022-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): “homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language.” As she searches for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue, Hiruko soon makes new friends. Her troupe travels to France, encountering an umami cooking competition; a dead whale; an ultra-nationalist named Breivik; unrequited love; Kakuzo robots; red herrings; uranium; an Andalusian matador. Episodic and mesmerizing scenes flash vividly along, and soon they’re all next off to Stockholm. With its intrepid band of companions, Scattered All Over the Earth (the first novel of a trilogy) may bring to mind Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or a surreal Wind in the Willows, but really is just another sui generis Yoko Tawada masterwork.

Facing the Bridge

2007 Fiction
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Release : 2007
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 906/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Facing the Bridge written by Yōko Tawada. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Japan to Vietnam to Amsterdam to the Canary Islands, these three new tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada float between cultures, identities, and the dreamwork of the imagination

Where Europe Begins: Stories

2007-05-17 Fiction
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Release : 2007-05-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 515/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Where Europe Begins: Stories by : Yoko Tawada

Download or read book Where Europe Begins: Stories written by Yoko Tawada. This book was released on 2007-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers. Chosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as "a spectacular journey through a world of colliding languages and multiplying cities." In these stories' disparate settings—Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany—the reader becomes as much a foreigner as the author, or the figures that fill this book: the ghost of a burned woman, a traveler on the Trans-Siberian railroad, a mechanical doll, a tongue, a monk who leaps into his own reflection. Through the timeless art of storytelling, Yoko Tawada discloses the virtues of bewilderment, estrangement, and Hilaritas: the goddess of rejoicing.

The Naked Eye

2009-05-26 Fiction
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Release : 2009-05-26
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 507/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Naked Eye written by Yoko Tawada. This book was released on 2009-05-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency.”—Michael Porter, The New York Times A precocious Vietnamese high school student — known as the pupil with “the iron blouse”—in Ho Chi Minh City is invited to an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. But, in East Berlin, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on “Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism,” she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany. After a strange spell of domestic-sexual boredom with her lover-abductor—and though “the Berlin Wall was said to be more difficult to break through than the Great Wall of China” — she escapes on a train to Moscow . . . but mistakenly arrives in Paris. Alone, broke, and in a completely foreign land, Anh (her false name) loses herself in the films of Catherine Deneuve as her real adventures begin. Dreamy, meditative, and filled with the gritty everyday perils of a person living somewhere without papers (at one point Anh is subjected to some vampire-like skin experiments), The Naked Eye is a novel that is as surprising as it is delightful—each of the thirteen chapters titled after and framed by one of Deneuve’s films. “As far as I was concerned,” the narrator says while watching Deneuve on the screen, “the only woman in the world was you, and so I did not exist.” By the time 1989 comes along and the Iron Curtain falls, story and viewer have morphed into the dislocating beauty of both dancer and dance.

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