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Efter en katastrofe har Japan kappet alle forbindelser til omverdenen. Den 100-årige Yoshiro tager sig omsorgsfuldt af sit oldebarn Mumei. Børnene fødes syge og kraftesløse. Deres liv hænger i en tynd tråd, alligevel er de muntre og vise. De gamle bliver
In this concluding volume, intrepid Hiruko and her band of friends embark on a sea voyage in search of Hiruko's lost island homeland - the Land of Sushi. The boat carrying the companions strikes east from Copenhagen across the Baltic Sea, but as it do
*From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo* A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist. Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished
Three bears. The first, a diligent memoirist whose unlikely success forces her to flee Soviet Russia. The second, her daughter, a skilled dancer in an East Berlin circus. The third, Knut, a baby bear born and raised in Berlin Zoo at the beginning of the 2
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to shut itself
Patrik, who sometimes calls himself the patient, is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open again, but Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages
Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about hi
Brudgommen var en hund er en dybt mærkværdig, bizar og udpræget drømmeagtig fortælling om et romantisk og seksuelt forhold mellem en lærerinde og en hundelignende mand. Romanen udpeges af The New York Times som Yoko Tawadas mesterværk, og dens drømmeligne
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NBCC AWARD IN CRITICISM AND THE GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE ANew YorkerBest Book of 2025 I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not imitat
Hvor Europa begynder er en samling af tekster der bevæger sig gennem skiftende landskaber af eventyr, familiehistorie, drømme, hverdagslivet, mærkværdige ord og løsrevne bogstaver. Tawada udvisker skellet mellem fakta og fiktion, mellem prosa og poesi, og
The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as "Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness"-Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as bot
Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with h
It's hard to believe there could be a more enjoyable novel than Scattered All Over the Earth --Yoko Tawada's rollicking, touching, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship and climate change--but surprising her readers is what Tawada does best: