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2 days ago · Translated by Margaret Mitsutani. “Suggested in the Stars” is the second in Yoko Tawada’s trilogy of friendship amid climate change dystopia, begun by “ Scattered All Over the Earth ...
1 day ago · Yoko Tawada breaks the dream of normalcy and, unafraid of bending conventions, creates a world where opposites coexist—not unlike what fairy tales did in Britain during the nineteenth century, in which queerness could be understood as a “border condition,” that is, an ability to inhabit both the human and the fairy world, therefore creating “a horizon of possibilities” where the ordinary and the extraordinary were able to meet (McGillis 2003: 90).
Sep 19, 2024 · Yoko Tawada, the multi-award-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo and Scattered All Over the Earth, is coming to London and Cheltenham for an insightful pair of talks celebrating her latest UK release, Spontaneous Acts, translated by Susan Bernofsky.
1 day ago · Synopsis 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 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 even ...
4 days ago · Japanese author, Yoko Tawada, is an oddity. Fluent in Japanese and German, she writes in both. She has also won prizes across a wide range of genres, from novels to poetry, plays and essays.
1 day ago · 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
Sep 13, 2024 · “Art is always an overreaction,” writes Yoko Tawada in her lithe and compact novel Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel (translated from German by Susan Bernofsky); this statement being in itself an overstatement, as all statements are overstatements.
