Yōko Tawada
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New Directions paperbook ; 1523
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"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...
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English
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"The Memoirs of a Polar Bear is a novel that stars three generations of talented writers and performers who happen to be polar bears. The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in The New Yorker as 'Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness' --Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous, both as circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who...
3) The emissary
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Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient--frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise....
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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"Where Europe Begins presents a collection of startling, innovative stories by Yoko Tawada. In these ten tales - two originally written in Japanese, eight in German - the reader moves through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, childhood memories, strange words and letters, dreams, and everyday reality."
"In these stories' disparate settings - Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany - boundaries blur and shift between the physical and metaphysical,...
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English
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Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language prose text by Yoko Tawada entitled 'Portrait of a Tongue' ['Porträt einer Zunge', 2002]. Yoko Tawada is a native speaker of Japanese who learned German as an adult.
Portrait of a Tongue is a portrait of a German woman-referred...
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Español
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¿Qué se siente no tener nombre, identidad, idioma, hogar, país? La protagonista de El ojo desnudo pasa de lo cotidiano a lo desconocido, de la familiaridad del encierro al desconcierto de un mundo sin fronteras, de su natal Vietnam a Alemania y de ahí a París. La identidad de la joven se transforma y se borra una y otra vez: vive con gente de la calle, se ofrece como voluntaria para una serie de experimentos dermatológicos falsifica su pasaporte,...
