![]() From one moment to the next, her narratives can be mystifying. ![]() ![]() It pursues a left project not only in form but also in content-an engagement with the plight of the poor, the disenfranchised, the forgotten-and leaves her readers no doubt that, at the end of the day, her project has political stakes." - Reed McConnell - The Baffler ""The mystery of what it means to be human"-this phrase, which pops up early in "Kollwitz Strasse," is an apt description of what Tawada aims to explore in these stories. "Tawada's stories agitate the mind like songs half-remembered or treasure boxes whose keys are locked within." - The New York Times "Tawada is reminiscent of Nikolai Gogol, for whom the natural situation for a ghost story was a minor government employee saving up to buy a fancy coat, the natural destiny of a nose to haunt its owner as an overbearing nobleman." - Rivka Galchen - The New York Times Magazine "Tawada's strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity, and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own." - The New Yorker "These stories reinvent familiar landmarks and artworks, giving readers an imaginative and hopeful way to grapple with the history that's written into the urban landscape." - Publishers Weekly "Three Streets is one of the most explicitly dialectical works in Tawada's oeuvre. ![]()
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