Facing the Bridge
Fictionby Yoko Tawada
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 postcard…On the Canary Islands, a nameless translator battles a banana grove and a series of Saint Georges…
These three new tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada cross cultures and histories with a sensuous playfulness as sweet as a box of candied hearts—even Michael Jackson makes an appearance. In Facing the Bridge, Tawada’s second collection of stories with New Directions, obsession becomes delight as the reader is whisked into a world where identities flicker and shift in a never-ending balance.
Paperback(published May 1, 2007)
- ISBN
- 9780811216906
- Price US
- 14.95
- Trim Size
- 5x7
- Page Count
- 192
Ebook(published May 1, 2007)
- ISBN
- 9780811223492
- Page Count
- 192