Description
A young Vietnamese woman arrives in Berlin to deliver a lecture, only to have her plans—and her sense of self—shatter when she is abruptly kidnapped and transported to a small town in West Germany. As she struggles to survive without papers and to make sense of shifting borders, languages, and power, her story unfolds across Vietnam, East and West Berlin, and Paris, threaded with uncanny fantasies and cinematic echoes of Catherine Deneuve. Suspenseful yet dreamy, the novel blends abduction and obsession with the gritty everyday dangers of living in the margins. Through themes of displacement, identity, and the politics of representation, it showcases Yoko Tawada’s distinctive, original style—meditative, strange, and sharply observant about how language can both shelter and expose us.
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paperback
New Directions Books
Published Jan 1, 2009
242 pages
ISBN: 2900811217391
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Details
First Published
2009
Language
jpn
Translation
From: jpn
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