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Sändebudet
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2026
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
149 kr
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VINNARE AV 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 gammelmorfar Yoshiro. Mumei är sjuklig och svag, men ändå …
Spridda över jordklotet
Av Yoko Tawada
Inbunden, 2023
288 kr
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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 umami-festival i Tyskland där en kock vid namn Tenzo ska …
Last Children of Tokyo
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
130 kr
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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 from the rest of the world. He may live for decades …
Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2016
166 kr
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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 as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are …
Scattered All Over the Earth
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2023
130 kr
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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 vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land …
Suggested in the Stars
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2025
130 kr
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Hiruko, from the now vanished archipelago 'somewhere between China and Polynesia', and her band of friends have searched in vain for someone who speaks her native language. They finally track down Susanoo, a sushi chef from the same nation, but there's a problem - he has lost the power of speech. …
Emissary
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2018
160 kr
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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 about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day …
Naked Eye
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2009
166 kr
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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 …
Archipelago of the Sun
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2025
166 kr
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In this concluding volume, intrepid Hiruko and her band of friends embark on a sea voyage in search of Hiruko's lost island homeland - the Land of Sushi. The boat carrying the companions strikes east from Copenhagen across the Baltic Sea, but as it docks in coastal ports along the route, an array …
Glänta 2(2014) Migration 2
Av Meriç Algün Ringborg, Agri Ismaïl m. fl.
2014
85 kr
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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 Sydkorea, ambassadören som migrant, att resa med döda …
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2024
169 kr
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Patrik, 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 again, but Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get out of bed. When he shaves his …
Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2017
130 kr
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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 of the 21st century.Here, then, is the enchanting story …
Tyskland berättar : den mindre halvan av världen - sjutton noveller
Av Yoko Tawada, Tanja Dückers m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
258 kr
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"Tjugo år senare är Tyskland inte längre en delad nation, allt är fortfarande samma men ändå nytt. Och författarna rör sig kritiskt och nostalgiskt över alla slags gränser: nationella och internationella, historiska och politiska. Det finns inte längre några vattentäta skott mellan form och …
Scattered All Over the Earth
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2022
194 kr
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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): …
Exophony
Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
Av Yoko Tawada
E-bok, 2025
125 kr
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''Tawada''s strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity and what it means to own someone else''s story or one''s own'' The New Yorker on Tawada''s Memoirs of a Polar Bear Are you formed by your mother tongue? How might the world unfold if you stepped outside of its rhythms? In …
Exophony
Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2025
218 kr
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'Tawada's strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own' The New Yorker on Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar BearAre you formed by your mother tongue?How might the world unfold if you stepped outside of its rhythms?In this playful …
Spontaneous Acts
Av Yoko Tawada
E-bok, 2024
45 kr
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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, Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get …
Spontaneous Acts
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2024
207 kr
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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, Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get …
Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue
An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2013
176 kr
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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 text by Yoko Tawada entitled ‘Portrait of a Tongue’ …
Where Europe Begins
Stories
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2007
170 kr
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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." In these stories' disparate settings—Japan, Siberia, …
Three Streets
Av Yoko Tawada
Inbunden, 2022
210 kr
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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, a ghost boy begs her to buy him the old-fashioned sweets he …
Exophony
Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2025
207 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NBCC AWARD IN CRITICISM AND THE GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZEA New Yorker Best Book of 2025I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not “imitation” per se. All of these things I learn …
Suggested in the Stars
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2024
194 kr
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It’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 surprising her readers is what Tawada does best: its sequel, Suggested in the Stars, delivers exploits …
Archipelago of the Sun
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2025
154 kr
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The 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 moving to the opposite sex; Nanook, a Greenlander who once worked as a sushi chef; Nora, the German …
Bridegroom Was a Dog
Av Yoko Tawada
Inbunden, 2025
154 kr
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Masterfully 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 The New Yorker, which praised it as a “fast-moving, mysteriously compelling tale that has the dream …
Suggested in the Stars
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2024
166 kr
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Hiruko, from the now vanished archipelago 'somewhere between China and Polynesia', and her band of friends have searched in vain for someone who speaks her native language. They finally track down Susanoo, a sushi chef from the same nation, but there's a problem - he has lost the power of speech. …
Bridegroom Was a Dog
Av Yoko Tawada
Inbunden, 2024
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
166 kr
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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 TokyoMitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not …
