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A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is n……続きを見る

A tale of twisted love from Yoko Ogawaーauthor of The Diving Pool and The Housekeeper and the Professor. In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the f……続きを見る

Una poderosa y delicada novela, de tintes orwellianos, sobre el control social y la memoria. En una pequeña isla se produce un misterioso fenómeno. Un día desaparecen los pájaros, al siguiente podrí……続きを見る

Die Identitäten der Figuren in diesem Text sind fließend, zwischen Mann und Frau, Hetero und Homo, Kindheit und Erwachsene-Sein. Jede Öffnung in der Landschaft entpuppt sich als ein Durchgang zu ein……続きを見る

Winner of 2018 National Book Award in Translated Literature Library Journal Best Books of 2018 Yoko Tawada’s new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays wh……続きを見る

Un caso editoriale in Giappone e una commovente storia che cambierà il nostro modo di guardare alla matematica, al baseball, alla memoria e molto altro ancora. Lei, governante per lavoro, madre sing……続きを見る

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 terri……続きを見る

Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Profe……続きを見る

The last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, conducted by New York Times bestselling author David Sheff, featuring a new introduction that reflects on the fortieth anniversary of Lennon's……続きを見る

In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject……続きを見る

He is a brilliant maths Professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a……続きを見る

Vom Aufeinanderprallen zweier Kulturen erzählt diese Prosa-Skizze der Japanerin Yoko Tawada, die in Deutschland lebt. Im Blick des Fremden erschließt sich die europäische Alltags-Welt als ein System……続きを見る

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' ……続きを見る

Yoko Tawada denkt über Stimmen in verschiedenen Sprachen nach, sie erzählt vom Schreiben in unterschiedlichen Schriftsystemen und von Buchstabengespenstern im Computer und vielem mehr, auch von Gesi……続きを見る

Die Texte (größtenteils Erstveröffentlichungen) widmen sich poetischen Identitätsspielen. Welcher Zauber liegt im Spiel der Identitäten, im Wandel der Formen? Wie wirken Literatur, Wissenschaft und ……続きを見る

The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation brings together for the first time material dedicated to the theory and practice of translation to and from Japanese. This one semester advanced course i……続きを見る

From Japan to Vietnam to Amsterdam to the Canary Islands, these three new tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada float between cultures, identities, and the dreamwork of the imagination Amo, an Afr……続きを見る

Auf dem Gelände eines ehemaligen Waisenhauses steht eine Voliere, in der ganz unterschiedliche Vogelarten gehalten werden: Kanarienvögel, Haussperlinge und Prachtfinken, aber auch Papageien. Jeden T……続きを見る

The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love……続きを見る

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Allgemeines, Note: 1,3, Universität Siegen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Grundsätzlich unterscheidet die Literatur zwischen zwei Erkl……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoke……続きを見る

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performersーwho happen to be polar bears The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yo……続きを見る

In un tempo non precisato, su un’isola senza nome l’intera popolazione progressivamente smette di ricordare. Come per un’inspiegabile epidemia della memoria, sparisce l’idea di qualcosa, quindi spar……続きを見る

Originally published in 1986, this book discusses how the proper boundary between the lexicon and syntax should be defined and examines various word formation processes in Japanese and English which……続きを見る

Uma surpreendente história de três gerações ー avó, mãe e filho ー de ursos-polares, cobrindo boa parte do século XX e os eventos que moldaram o mundo do nosso tempo. Em 2006, um urso-polar bebê cha……続きを見る

¿Qué se siente no tener nombre, identidad, idioma, hogar, país? La protagonista de El ojo desnudo pasa de lo cotidiano a lo desconocido, de la familiaridad del encierro al desconcierto de un mundo s……続きを見る

Op een eiland verdwijnt op mysterieuze wijze steeds meer: hoeden, vogels, boeken, rozen... En de verdwijningen blijven serieuzere proporties aannemen. Telkens wordt het straatbeeld weer wat leger en……続きを見る

They were ordinary people, but also colorful people, regardless of age. “A Man and His Mother” Sometimes I accidentally got into a situation where I had no way of knowing what to do and how to get o……続きを見る

Yoko Tawadaーwinner of the National Book Awardーpresents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatura……続きを見る