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Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
$22.99 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
$29.99 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; 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
$29.99 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 Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yoko Tawada
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada's most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as, "fast-moving, mysteriously compelling tale that has the dream quality of Kafka."The Bridegroom Was a Dog begins with ...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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Three Streets by Yoko Tawada
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Storybook ND Ser.
The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse," as the narrator muses on former East Berlin's new bourgeois health food stores, so popular with wealthy young people, a ghost boy begs her to buy him the old-fashioned sweets he craves. She ...Show more
Where Europe Begins: Stories by Yoko Tawada
$26.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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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