{"product_id":"tawada-yoko-the-naked-eye-9780811217392","title":"The Naked Eye","description":"A precocious Vietnamese high school student - known as the pupil with \"the iron blouse\"-in Ho Chi Minh City is invited to an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. But, in East Berlin, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on \"Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism,\" she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany. After a strange spell of domestic-sexual boredom with her lover-abductor-and though \"the Berlin Wall was said to be more difficult to break through than the Great Wall of China\" - she escapes on a train to Moscow . . . but mistakenly arrives in Paris. Alone, broke, and in a completely foreign land, Anh (her false name) loses herself in the films of Catherine Deneuve as her real adventures begin.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDreamy, meditative, and filled with the gritty everyday perils of a person living somewhere without papers (at one point Anh is subjected to some vampire-like skin experiments), The Naked Eye is a novel that is as surprising as it is delightful-each of the thirteen chapters titled after and framed by one of Deneuve's films. \"As far as I was concerned,\" the narrator says while watching Deneuve on the screen, \"the only woman in the world was you, and so I did not exist.\" By the time 1989 comes along and the Iron Curtain falls, story and viewer have morphed into the dislocating beauty of both dancer and dance.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53684291993942,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780811217392_1_93ed67ca-185e-4d4d-8210-4c8f7182cddd.jpg?v=1781745234","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/tawada-yoko-the-naked-eye-9780811217392","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}