Yoko Tawada

• Jun-2007
• / General Fiction
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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 imaginationAmo, an African kidnapped to Europe as a boy, and Tamao, a Japan...

• Jun-2007
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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 ...

• Jun-2009
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“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...

• Dec-2012
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Internationally acclaimed author Yoko Tawada's most famous -- and bizarre -- tale in a stand-alone, New Directions Pearl edition.The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada’s most famous story. Its initial publica...

• Nov-2016
• / Historical
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The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers -- who happen to be polar bearsThe Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as “Yoko Tawada’s magnifice...

• Apr-2017
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• Apr-2018
• / Fantasy
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Winner of 2018 National Book Award in Translated LiteratureLibrary Journal Best Books of 2018Yoko Tawada’s new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her “brilliant, shimme...

• Jun-2018
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• Mar-2022
• / Literary
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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, it...

• Oct-2022
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Yoko Tawada -- winner of the National Book Award -- presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse," as t...

• Jul-2024
• / General Fiction
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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 AwardPatrik, who sometimes calls himself “the patient,” is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The ...

• Oct-2024
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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 adventuresIt’s hard to believe there could be a more enjoyable novel...

• Jul-2025
• / General Fiction
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An electrifying new side of the National Book Award Winner Yoko Tawada: her first book of essays in EnglishI am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not “imit...