Three streets
Tawada, Yōko, 1960-2022
Book
"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.
Main title:
Three streets / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.
Author:
Tawada, Yōko, 1960-, authorMitsutani, Margaret, translator
Work:
Imprint:
[New York] : New Directions Books, 2022.©2022
Collation:
80 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Variant title:
Spine title: 3 streets
Contents:
KollwitzstrasseMajakowskiringPuschkin Allee.
ISBN:
9780811229302 (hbk)9780811229302 (hardback)
Dewey class:
895.635
LC class:
PL862.A85
Language:
EnglishJapanese
BRN:
798312
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | Fiction | TAWA | On loan - Due: 11 Jul 2026 |
| East Melbourne Library | Fiction | TAWA | Available |
| North Melbourne Library | Fiction | TAWA | Available |