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Facing the Bridge
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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 the same shadow; Kazuko, a young professional tourist, is lured to Vietnam by a mysterious postcard; on the Canary Islands,...
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See moreIn Facing the Bridge, obsession becomes delight as the reader is whisked into a world where identities flicker and shift in three tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada.
From Japan to Vietnam to Amsterdam to the Canary Islands, these three tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada float between cultures, identities and the dreamwork of the imagination.
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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 the same shadow; Kazuko, a young professional tourist, is lured to Vietnam by a mysterious postcard; on the Canary Islands, a nameless translator battles a banana grove and a series of Saint Georges...
These three tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada cross cultures and histories with a sensuous playfulness. In Facing the Bridge, obsession becomes delight as the reader is whisked into a world where identities flicker and shift in a never-ending balance in three stories by master storyteller Yoko Tawada.
These three tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada cross cultures and histories with a sensuous playfulness. In Facing the Bridge, obsession becomes delight as the reader is whisked into a world where identities flicker and shift in a never-ending balance in three stories by master storyteller Yoko Tawada.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781803511887
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Books
Contributors:
- Translated by Margaret Mitsutani
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 192
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About the Author
Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German. She has received the Akutagawa Prize among other awards, and is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Bridegroom was a Dog, Scattered all Over the Earth, The Naked Eye and The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award under the title The Emissary.
Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and KenzaburΓΒΆ Γβe.
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