Yoko Tawada
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The Bridegroom Was a Dog
$17.95 Add to cartMasterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a disarming and unforgettable modern classic. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from Th
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0811239969
- Language: English
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Archipelago of the Sun
$16.95 Add to cartThe Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of movin… [more below]
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0811239799
- Language: English
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The Bridegroom Was a Dog
$10.95 Add to cartThe 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-movin
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0811220370
- Language: English
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Suggested in the Stars
$16.95 Add to cartIt’s hard to believe there could be a more enjoyable novel than Scattered All Over the Earth–Yoko Tawada’s rollicking, touching, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship and climate change–but su
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237931
- Language: English
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Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
$14.95 Add to cartPatrik, who sometimes calls himself “the patient,” is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open aga
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0811234878
- Language: English
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Three Streets
$17.95 Read moreThe 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 po… [more below]
- Series: Storybook ND
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0811229300
- Language: English
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Where Europe Begins: Stories
$15.95 Add to cartChosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as “a spectacular journey through a world of colli… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0811217027
- Language: English
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The Naked Eye
$16.95 Read moreA 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 sh… [more below]
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 26 2009
- ISBN10: 811217396
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Polar Bear
$16.95 Add to cartThe 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, mo
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 081122578X
- Language: English
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The Emissary
$15.95 Add to cartJapan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei l
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0811227626
- Language: English
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Scattered All Over the Earth
$16.95 Add to cartWelcome 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 … [more below]
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0811229289
- Language: English
