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Three Streets

By Yoko Tawada

Three Streets Essays & Short Stories

Three Streets

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Description
The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse," as the narrator muses on former East Berlin's new bourgeois health food stores, so popular with wealthy young people, a ghost boy begs her to buy him the old-fashioned sweets he craves. She worries that sugar's still sugar-but why lecture him, since he's already dead? Then white feathers fall from her head and she seems to be turning into a crane . . . Pure white kittens and a great Russian poet haunt "Majakowskiring": the narrator who reveres Mayakovsky's work is delighted to meet his ghost. And finally, in "Pushkin Allee," a huge Soviet-era memorial of soldiers comes to life-and, "for a scene of carnage everything was awfully well-ordered." Each of these stories opens up into new dimensions the work of this magisterial writer.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
64
Release Date:
2022-09-27
Publication Date:
2022-09-27
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0811229300
ISBN13:
9780811229302
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
275 g
Height:
162 cm
Width:
236 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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