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Naked Eye
Yoko Tawada
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Description for Naked Eye
Paperback. Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan. Num Pages: 256 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214.
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 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 escapes on a train to ... Read more
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 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 escapes on a train to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811217392
SKU
V9780811217392
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Ref
99-31
About Yoko Tawada
Born in Tokyo in 1960, Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German: she has received the Akutagawa, Kleist, Lessing, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso, and Tanizaki prizes, as well as the Goethe Medal. Her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award. Rivka Galchen in the New York Times Magazine hailed her work as “magnificently strange.” Susan Bernofsky is the ... Read more
Reviews for Naked Eye
"A distinguished contribution to the unique paranoid style of the new European novel."
Anis Shivani - The Brooklyn Rail "Her finest stories dramatize the fate of the individual in a mobilized world."
Benjamin Lytal, - The New York Sun "Tawada’s chilling evocations of disorientation are the peers of Paul Bowles’ most chilling stories."
Booklist "Honorable Mention: one ... Read more
Anis Shivani - The Brooklyn Rail "Her finest stories dramatize the fate of the individual in a mobilized world."
Benjamin Lytal, - The New York Sun "Tawada’s chilling evocations of disorientation are the peers of Paul Bowles’ most chilling stories."
Booklist "Honorable Mention: one ... Read more