The Naked Eye

by Yōko Tawada

A precocious Vietnamese high school student -- known as the pupil with "the iron blouse"--in Ho Chi Minh City is invited to an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. But, in East Berlin, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on "Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism," she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany. After a strange spell of domestic-sexual boredom with her lover-abductor--and though...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811217396
• ISBN13: 9780811217392
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 6.8"