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A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist

Patrik, who sometimes calls himself "the patient," is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after l

The highly anticipated, exquisite new novel from the award-winning, critically acclaimed Yoko Tawada, following our protagonist Patrik as he attempts

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 Mitsu

Hiruko, from the now vanished archipelago 'somewhere between China and Polynesia', and her companions have searched in vain for someone who speaks her

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former

Internationally acclaimed author Yoko Tawada's most famous - and bizarre - tale in a stand-alone, New Directions Pearl edition.

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

Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the on

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

“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.

Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue is a meditation on language and equivalence between German, Japanese, and English. Wright's experimental approach t

Part of the Keshiki project: a series of 8 short stories translated from the original Japanese and available as separate pamphlets as well as part of

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

A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers.

Yoshiro is een van de vele bejaarden in Japan die alsmaar ouder worden. Mannen en vrouwen die zich de tijd nog kunnen herinneren van voor de verschrik

Drie generaties van getalenteerde en wereldberoemde circusartiesten en auteurs, die toevallig ijsberen in de mensenwereld zijn, vertellen hun verhaal.