Three Streets (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780811229302)

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.

Author: Yoko Tawada
ISBN-10: 0811229300
ISBN-13: 9780811229302
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.26w x 0.49d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/20/2020