Facing the Bridge

Amo, an African kidnapped to Europe as a boy, and Tamao, a Japanese exchange student in Germany, live in different countries but are being followed by the same shadow...Kazuko, a young professional tourist, is lured to Vietnam by a mysterious postcard...On the Canary Islands, a nameless translator battles a banana grove and a series of Saint Georges...

These three new tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada cross cultures and histories with a sensuous playfulness as sweet as a box of candied hearts--even Michael Jackson makes an appearance. In Facing the Bridge, Tawada's second collection of stories with New Directions, obsession becomes delight as the reader is whisked into a world where identities flicker and shift in a never-ending balance.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/17/2007
ISBN: 9780811216906
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 6.94h x 5.06w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Booklist 05/01/2007 pg. 75