Three streets

Author(s)

• 多和田, 葉子 タワダ, ヨウコ
• 満谷, マーガレット ミツタニ, マーガレット

Bibliographic Information

Three streets

Yoko Tawada ; translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani

（Storybook ND）

New Directions, 2022

• : hardcover

Other Title

3 streets

Hyakunen-no-sanpo

百年の散歩

Note

"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

Summary: "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 the 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 glows, and opens up into new dimensions the work of this magisterial writer"-- Provided by publisher

Contents of Works

• Kollwitzstrasse
• Majakowskiring
• Puschkinallee

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BD01478131
• ISBN:
  • 9780811229302
• LCCN: 2020012674
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: jpn
• Place of Publication: NY [i.e. New York]
• Pages/Volumes: 80 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PL862.A85
  • DC23 : 895.63/5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Tawada, Yōko, 1960- -- Translations into English
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BC1859340X