The Naked Eye
Tawada's slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency.”—Michael Porter, The New York TimesA 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 kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany. After a strange spell of domestic-sexual boredom with her lover-abductor—and though the Berlin Wall was said to be more difficult to break through than the Great Wall of China” — she…
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Weitere Autoren: Bernofsky, Susan (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2350-8
- EAN: 9780811223508
- Produktnummer: 34247539
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 562 KB
Über den Autor
Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German and has received the Akutagawa, Lessing, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso and Tanizaki prizes. Last year her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award.
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