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.
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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