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Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky (trans.)
The highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.
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Yoko Tawada, Margaret Misutani (trans.)
The magical sequel to Scattered All Over the Earth, from the prize-winning Japanese author.
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Yoko Tawada
On the heels of Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada's new and irresistible Suggested in the Stars carries on her band of friends' astonishing and intrepid adventures
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Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (trans.)
A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award
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A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan by the astonishing Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award
Yoko Tawada’s new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness
Yoko Tawada-winner of the National Book Award-presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin
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The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers-who happen to be polar bears
Part of the Keshiki project: a series of 8 short stories translated from the original Japanese and available as separate pamphlets as well as part of an overall boxed set.
Yoeko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Yoeko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker…
A dreamlike story of filial love and glimmering hope, set in a future where the old live almost-forever and children’s lives are all too brief.
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This book combines German and Japanese texts by Yoko Tawada with new English translations and a documentation of her time as Writer in Residence at the University of Oxford, including…
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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
Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency. -Michael Porter, The New York Times
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This collection brings together scholars from around the world to recognize and assess the achievements of Tawada Yoko, the prolific and highly lauded author who writes in Japanese and German.
Yoko Tawada (New Directions)
This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is Poetry and Conflict . 21 international poets from…
Yoko Tawada’s Portrait of a Tongue is a meditation on language and equivalence between German, Japanese, and English. Wright’s experimental approach to the translation draws attention to the presence of…
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist.
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Internationally acclaimed author Yoko Tawada’s most famous - and bizarre - tale in a stand-alone, New Directions Pearl edition.
Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and everyday reality, this collection of stories blurs divisions between fact and fiction, prose and poetry. Set…
A Los Angeles artist residence reflects on themes of exile and refuge in its 25th year
Marking its 25th anniversary as an artist residence, and, against the backdrop of Covid-19…
This is the second volume of Annotated Japanese Literary Gems, which makes available representative examples of Japanese short stories and novellas from Meiji to the present. This multi-volume set of…
