Three Streets - Yoko Tawada

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 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 opens up into new dimensions the work of this magisterial writer. Review Tawada is reminiscent of Nikolai Gogol, for whom the natural situation for a ghost story was a minor government employee saving up to buy a fancy coat, the natural destiny of a nose to haunt its owner as an overbearing nobleman. --Rivka Galchen "The New York Times Magazine"Tawada's stories agitate the mind like songs half-remembered or treasure boxes whose keys are locked within. --"The New York Times"Tawada's strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity, and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own. --"The New Yorker" About the Author Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twe
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