Yoko Tawada - Böcker

Hirukis hemland har försvunnit under havets yta och är numera bara ihågkommet som "Sushilandet". Själv har hon flytt till Skandinavien, där hon uppfunnit det egna språket panska för att göra sig förstådd. Men när hon får höra talas om en...

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I en inte alltför avlägsen framtid har Japan försvunnit under havets yta och koms bara ihåg som "Sushilandet". Huvudpersonen Hiruko har klimat-flytt till Skandinavien -- stora delar av romanen utspelas i Danmark och Sverige -- och tror sig vara de...

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*From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo* 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 ...

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Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to s...

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»En omistlig författare för vår tid.« Yukiko Duke, Svenska Dagbladet Tre generationer isbjörnar: en memoarförfattare, en cirkusartist och en världsberömd djurparks¿attraktion. Ibland krävs det nya ögon för att vi ska få syn på oss själva. Med det ...

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Three bears. The first, a diligent memoirist whose unlikely success forces her to flee Soviet Russia. The second, her daughter, a skilled dancer in an East Berlin circus. The third, Knut, a baby bear born and raised in Berlin Zoo at the beginning ...

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The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawadas 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...

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I en närliggande framtid, i efterdyningarna av en stor katastrof, har Japan isolerat sig från omvärlden. Barnen är så svaga att de knappt kan gå, medan de äldre tycks odödliga. Här lever pojken Mumei med sin gammelmorfar Yoshiro. Mumei är sjuklig ...

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Die deutsche Grammatik sei schwer; eins der Klischee. Tawada nimmt Sätze, wie sie uns im Alltag begegnen, und nimmt sie wörtlich, zeigt dabei, wie leicht und spielerisch sich Grammatik auch "lesen" lässt. erhellende, überraschende, vergn...

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Japan, 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 lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries ...

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Die Hauptfiguren dieser Geschichte sind drei Eisbären. Großmutter, Mutter Tosca und Sohn Knut, der vor Jahren medienbekannte Berliner Eisbär. Für Yoko Tawada wurde dieser Bär zum Symbol für jemanden, der versucht, in einer anderen Kultur Fuß zu fa...

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Welcome to the not-too-distant future as envisioned by the remarkable Yoko Tawada. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, a former citizen of the land of sushi and a climate refugee herself...

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VINNARE AV EN NATIONAL BOOK AWARD I en närliggande framtid, i efterdyningarna av en stor katastrof, har Japan isolerat sig från omvärlden. Barnen är så svaga att de knappt kan gå, medan de äldre tycks odödliga. Här lever pojken Mumei med sin gamme...

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Det andra nummer av tre om migration handlar bl a om vägen från Gaza till Sverige, svenskars återmigration till Kurdistan, ex-jugoslaviska spritresor till Tyskland, migration till rymden, arbetskraftsinvandring till Brasilien, adoptionskritik i Sy...

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From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo 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 va...

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The highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada. Patrik is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life after lockdown. Though his beloved opera houses are open again, Patri...

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Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language prose te...

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Amo, an African kidnapped to Europe as a boy, and Tamao, a Japanese exchange student in Germany, live in different countries but are being followed by the same shadow...Kazuko, a young professional tourist, is lured to Vietnam by a mysterious post...

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Chosen 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 colliding languages and multiplying cities.&quo...

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A precocious Vietnamese high school student known as the pupil with the iron blousein 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 Viet...

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The 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, mother, son) of polar bears are famous...

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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,...

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A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan, described as "bewitching" (Judith von Sternberg, Frankfurter Rundschau ) and "incredibly dreamlike... a brilliant literary event" (Torsten Flüh, Night Out ...

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On the heels of Scattered All Over the Earth , Yoko Tawada's new and irresistible Suggested in the Stars carries on her band of friends' astonishing and intrepid adventures

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The works of the Japanese writer Yoko Tawada, who lives in Germany and writes in both German and Japanese, demand the suspension of common concepts of reading, understanding, and thinking. Her translingual writing is based on a playful and, at the...

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*From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo*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 va...

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A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her...

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Someone tickled me behind my ears, under my arms. I curled up, became a full moon, and rolled on the floor. I may also have emitted a few hoarse shrieks. Then I lifted my rump to the sky and tucked my head beneath my belly: Now I was a sickle moon...

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Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to shut itself off ...

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Mamoru wakes up at 9am in Berlin, eats breakfast, and then sets off to teach a Japanese language class, carrying a sashimi knife in his bag. At this moment in New York, Manfred lurches from a dream where a fisherman was about to gut him he wakes j...

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