Yoko Tawada

The encounter of different cultures, everyday experiences of small misunderstandings, linguistic confusions, and the interaction with small things from the daily life of a new country, like yogurt, leads to surprising insights. One follows Tawada's enlightening observations with delight. After reading, as one reviewer put it, one suddenly listens again to the sound of certain words and sees what has long been overlooked with new eyes. From the content: In a new country: Set milk - Ten tips for successful integration - Trans-Siberian roses - Accent freedom - An uninvited guest - Letter to Olympia - Every fish with fins also has scales (The food culture, the foreign, and morality) - Writing in the web of languages Not past: The invisible wall - Word, wolf, and the Brothers Grimm - A hole in Berlin - Half-life - Namida ...