YOKO TAWADA writes in both Japanese and German. She has received the Akutagawa Prize among other awards, and is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Bridegroom Was a Dog, Scattered All Other the Earth and The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award under the title The Emissary.SUSAN BERNOFSKY is the prizewinning translator of works by Robert Walser, Jenny Erpenbeck, Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse. She is the author, most recently, of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser.

The Naked Eye is a fever-dream page-turner. Yet expertly entwined in the narrative are the everyday perils of an undocumented individual and the loss of one's identity.... A tale of detachment and escape from the horrors of the modern world

YOKO TAWADA writes in both Japanese and German. She has received the Akutagawa Prize among other awards, and is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Bridegroom Was a Dog, Scattered All Other the Earth and The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award under the title The Emissary.SUSAN BERNOFSKY is the prizewinning translator of works by Robert Walser, Jenny Erpenbeck, Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse. She is the author, most recently, of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser.

The Naked Eye is a fever-dream page-turner. Yet expertly entwined in the narrative are the everyday perils of an undocumented individual and the loss of one's identity.... A tale of detachment and escape from the horrors of the modern world