Three Streets by Yōko Tawada Free PDF Download

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Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Genres: Short Stories, Fiction Books, Novella Books
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Pages: 64 pages
ISBN13: 9780811229302
Tags: Short Stories, Fiction Books, Novella Books, Free Books, PDF Books
Language: en
Type: Digital

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.

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