Facing the Bridge

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Price
$14.95  $13.90
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
Pages
192
Dimensions
5.06 X 0.5 X 6.94 inches | 0.38 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811216906
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About the Author

Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German, and has published dozens of books--stories, novels, poems, plays, essays--in each language. She has received numerous awards for her writing including the Akutagawa Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Kleist Prize, and the Goethe Medal. New Directions publishes eight of her books, including The Emissary, which won the inaugural National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2018.
Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada (sharing her National Book Award) and Kenzaburo Oe (Japan's 1994 Nobel Prize laureate).

Reviews

...in the title of this volume [Tawada] chooses to face the bridge, to stare it down, perhaps, refusing to cross. Through her writing she seeks to create a new kind of bridge--not as a structure built of stone or concrete, but as a physical process, a continuing dance.--Margaret Mitsutani
In Tawada's work, one has the feeling of having wandered into a mythology that is not one's own.--Rivka Galchen