Three streets / by Yoko Tawada ; translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tawada, Yōko, 1960- author.

Contributor:

Mitsutani, Margaret, translator.

Series:

Storybook ND

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Tawada, Yōko, 1960---Translations into English.

Tawada, Yōko.

Tawada, Yōko, 1960-.

Genre:

Translations.

Short stories.

Paranormal fiction.

Physical Description:

80 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

3 streets

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.

Summary:

"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 the 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 glows, and opens up into new dimensions the work of this magisterial writer"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780811229302

0811229300

OCLC:

1150825049

Publisher Number:

99992091907

40031388125