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

by Tawada, Yōko, 1960- author.

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New York : Storybook ND, 2022.

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

9780811229302 (paper over board : hardback) :

0811229300 (paper over board : hardback)

80 pages ; 24 cm

"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"--

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