Facing the Bridge

By Yōko Tawada

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081121690X
• ISBN13: 9780811216906
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 6.9"