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Facing the Bridge
A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by Yoko Tawada
Subgenres:
- Short Stories,
- Cross-Cultural Fiction,
- Identity Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Stories where identities flicker between cultures and continents
- Surreal journeys with playful, dreamlike twists
- Characters haunted by mysterious connections across distant places
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 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.
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