Spontaneous Acts
(Sprache: Englisch)
Praise for Yoko Tawada
'Something about the way Tawada writes... allows the reader to take the most surreal and fantastical elements of the work completely seriously' Lucy Scholes
'Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things' Sara...
'Something about the way Tawada writes... allows the reader to take the most surreal and fantastical elements of the work completely seriously' Lucy Scholes
'Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things' Sara...
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Praise for Yoko Tawada'Something about the way Tawada writes... allows the reader to take the most surreal and fantastical elements of the work completely seriously' Lucy Scholes
'Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things' Sara Baume
Praise for The Last Children of Tokyo
'Hums with beautiful strangeness' New York Times
'Achieves a technically impossible balance of open-hearted fable and cold-blooded satire' Financial Times
'A joyful exploration of language, a constantly surprising and exciting romp' Daisy Johnson
'Carries us beyond the limits of what it is to be human, in order to remind us what we must hold dearest in our conflicted world, our humanity' Sjón
Autoren-Porträt von Yoko Tawada
Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German, and has published several books-stories, novels, poems, plays, essays-in both languages. She has received numerous awards for her writing including the Akutagawa Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Goethe Medal and the National Book Award.Susan Bernofsky is the prizewinning translator of seven works of fiction by the great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser, as well as novels and poetry by Yoko Tawada, Jenny Erpenbeck, Uljana Wolf, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse and others. Her biography of Walser, Clairvoyant of the Small, appeared in 2021. A Guggenheim, Cullman and Berlin Prize fellow, she teaches literary translation at the Columbia University School of the Arts.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Yoko Tawada
- 2024, 144 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 21,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Susan Bernofsky
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 0349704236
- ISBN-13: 9780349704234
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Tawada disrupts our perception and reveals the terror and beauty of our world as we get lost in it, and regain our footing through reading her novels. Kit Fan, author of THE INK CLOUD READER 20240513
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