Yōko Tawada Libri

Tre talentuosi orsi bianchi sono gli inusitati protagonisti di un romanzo che racconta le loro travagliate esistenze attraversando un secolo di storia. La prima è la matriarca, stella del circo sovietico, che dopo il ritiro dalle scene scopre il piacere di ritrovarsi sola con la sua penna stilografica: la sua autobiografia farà di lei una scrittrice di successo. Sua figlia Tosca, nata in Canada, si trasferisce nella Germania orientale, dove dà spettacolo come provetta ballerina di tango nei circhi. La sua storia ci giunge attraverso la voce dell’addestratrice Barbara, con cui ha stabilito un legame viscerale che dai sogni arriva fino al palco. Infine Knut, il figlio che Tosca abbandona per seguire la sua vena artistica, si ritrova affidato a un altro mammifero, il custode dello zoo di Berlino, e cresce assediato da giornalisti e visitatori, diventando, suo malgrado, il simbolo delle ansie per il destino del pianeta. Orsi polari che non hanno mai messo piede al Polo Nord, cresciuti in simbiosi con chi li ha irrimediabilmente snaturati, Knut, la madre e la nonna si aggrappano al ricordo per inseguire la propria identità e osservano gli umani con sguardo stranito e insieme profondamente curioso, scovando una comune radice animale che annulla ogni barriera linguistica, politica o sociale.

The highly anticipated, exquisite new novel from the award-winning, critically acclaimed Yoko Tawada, following our protagonist Patrik as he attempts to find connection in a world that constantly overwhelms him.[Bokinfo].

"Tawada's slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency."--Michael Porter, The New York Times

A dreamlike story of filial love and glimmering hope, set in a future where the old live almost-forever and children's lives are all too brief.

A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she tells the children the fable of a princess whose hand in marriage is promised to a dog she is intimate with. And when a young man with sharp canine teeth turns up at the schoolteacher's home and declares he's 'here to stay', the romantic - and sexual - relationship that develops intrigues the community, some of whom have suspicions about the man's identity and motives. Masterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a disarming and unforgettable modern classic.

Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as ‘the land of sushi’. Hiruko, a former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): ‘homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. no time to learn three different languages. might mix up. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language most Scandinavian people understand’.Hiruko soon makes new friends to join her in her travels searching for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue: Knut, a graduate student in linguistics, who is fascinated by her Panska; Akash, an Indian man who lives as a woman, wearing a red sari; Nanook, an Eskimo from Greenland, first mistaken as another refugee from the land of sushi; and Nora, who works at the Karl Marx House in Trier. All these characters take turns narrating chapters, which feature an umami cooking competition; a dead whale; an ultra- nationalist named Breivik; Kakuzo robots; uranium; and an Andalusian bull fight. Episodic, vividly imagined and mesmerising, Scattered All Over the Earth is another sui generis masterwork by Yoko Tawada.

Yoko Tawada-winner of the National Book Award-presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin

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