Three streets
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Three streets
Storybook ND, 2022
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3 streets
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"These three stories, "Kollwitzstrasse," "Majakowskiring," and "Puschkinallee," were selected from a volume originally published in Japanese as Hyakunen-no-sanpo ("A Century of Walks,") by Shincho-sha in 2017. Published by arrangement with the author" -- T.p. verso
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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.
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