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A collection of writings by the award-winning author includes fairy tales, family histories, letters, dreams, and everyday observations on such topics as the ghost of a burned woman, a woman traveling on the Trans-Siberian railroad, a mechanical doll, and a monk who leaps into his own reflection.
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Yoko Tawada―“strange, exquisite” (The New Yorker )―was born in Tokyo in 1960 and moved to Germany when she was twenty-two. She writes in both Japanese and German and has received the Akutagawa Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Goethe Medal, and the Tanizaki Prize.
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An undeniably superb, even breathtaking short story collection about life spent in the in-between. -- Asian Week, Terry Hong, 31 January 2003
Cheops is further evidence that West remains one of our most challenging and invigorating novelists. -- Review of Contemporary Fiction, David W. Madden, Fall 2003
It is nearly impossible to describe these stories becaue they shift and change and run through their permutations so quickly. -- Harvard Book Review, Paul Harding, Spring 2003
My big discovery of the year is the poetry and fiction of the Japanese German writer Yoko Tawada. -- Times Literary Supplement, Marjorie Perloff
Only the most profound reverence, I felt, could do justice to this writer and this work. -- Wim Wenders
Profound, insightful, thought provoking and frequently hilarious....a truly important novel by an artist of astonishing strength. -- A Modern Review of Ancient Egypt, J. M. Adams, Summer 2003
Read these stories...you have never run across anything like them in the canon of modern and contemporary Japanese literature. -- JapanPage.com, Thomas Rimer, 1 September 2003
Tawada's slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency. -- The New York Times
Yoko Tawada's stories are fascinating. -- Southern Humanities Review, Nobuko Miyama Ochner
[An] ironically humourous, almost hallucinogenic journey...truly an amusing novel of farcical thought. -- Historical Novels Review, Suzanne Crane, 1 February 2003
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- PublisherNew Directions
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0811215156
- ISBN 13 9780811215152
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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