Three Streets

by Yōko Tawada

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811229300
• ISBN13: 9780811229302
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"