Facing the Bridge
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Asako Yuzuki
Author_Yoko Tawada
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Product details
- ISBN 9781803511887
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Amo, an African kidnapped to Europe as a boy, and Tamao, a Japanese exchange student in Germany, live in different countries but are being followed by the same shadow; Kazuko, a young professional tourist, is lured to Vietnam by a mysterious postcard; on the Canary Islands, a nameless translator battles a banana grove and a series of Saint Georges...
These three tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada cross cultures and histories with a sensuous playfulness. In Facing the Bridge, obsession becomes delight as the reader is whisked into a world where identities flicker and shift in a never-ending balance.
Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German. She has received the Akutagawa Prize among other awards, and is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Bridegroom was a Dog, Scattered all Over the Earth, The Naked Eye and The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award under the title The Emissary.
Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburö Öe.
