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Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada; Susan Bernofsky
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bea ...Show more
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist. Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. Hiruko, a former citizen and a climate ...Show more
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist
Scattered All over the Earth by Yoko Tawada; Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 l ...Show more
Spontaneous Acts by Yoko Tawada
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.Patrik, who sometimes calls himself "the patient," is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life after lockdown. Though his beloved opera houses are open again, Patrik cannot leave ...Show more
The Emissary by Yoko Tawada; Margaret Mitsutani
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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" Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they ca ...Show more
The Last Children of Tokyo by Yoko Tawada
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Yoshiro celebrated his hundredth birthday many years ago, but every morning before work he still goes running in the park with his rent-a-dog. He is one of the many aged-elderly in Japan and he might, he thinks, live forever. Life for Yoshiro isn't as simple as it used to be. Pollution and natural disas ...Show more
The Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar ...Show more
The Naked Eye by YOKO TAWADA
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Where Europe Begins: Stories by Yoko Tawada
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Where Europe Begins presents a collection of startling new stories by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and every-day reality, Tawada\'s work blurs divisions between fact and fiction, prose and poetry. Often set in p ...Show more
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