Trainee of Snow

Snow trainee

The Contemporary Japanese Female Writer Closest to a Nobel Prize, Sketching Extraordinary Lives Under the "Cold War" with a Fairytale Brushstroke
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【Editor's Recommendations】
❄️Following Natsume Soseki's "I Am a Cat" and its feline perspective on humanity, Yoko Tawada dons a bearskin, residing in circuses, writers' associations, bookstores, and zoos in the Soviet Union and Germany... recounting the meetings, weather, salmon, and men and women of that era.
❄️The contemporary Japanese female writer closest to the Nobel Prize in Literature, sketching extraordinary lives under the grand history of the "Cold War" with a fairytale brushstroke.
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【Content Introduction】
I am a polar bear, once the "Circus Star" of Moscow. After an injury forced my retirement, I began writing my memoirs. I submitted my work to a magazine, which unexpectedly set me on a path of exile. The manuscript paper in West Berlin was as white as the ice fields of my homeland. I took up my pen to write the names of my unborn daughter and grandson, and the story automatically unfolded into the future…
"A story that no one will listen to is like a gaping hole; I was sucked into it and disappeared." – The insider transforms into an outsider "bear," feeling Berlin, with and without its walls, through thick fur; the dramatic changes of the era are like a heavy snowfall, so light, yet so weighty.
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【Celebrity Recommendation】
Yoko Tawada's stories, like songs with forgotten melodies or treasure chests with keys locked inside, stir people's hearts. – The New York Times

2025-03-01

译林出版社

284

9787575303316