A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers.
Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German. She has received the Akutagawa Prize among other awards, and is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Bridegroom was a Dog, Scattered all Over the Earth, The Naked Eye and The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award under the title The Emissary. Susan Bernofsky is the prize-winning translator of works by Robert Walser, Jenny Erpenbeck, Franz Kafka and Herman Hesse. She is the author, most recently, of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser.
