A suspenseful tale of abduction, obsession and lost identity that spans Vietnam, East Berlin, West German and Paris - and fantasies of Catherine Deneuve.
YOKO TAWADA writes in both Japanese and German. She has received the Akutagawa Prize among other awards, and is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Bridegroom Was a Dog, Scattered All Other the Earth and The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award under the title The Emissary. SUSAN BERNOFSKY is the prizewinning translator of works by Robert Walser, Jenny Erpenbeck, Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse. She is the author, most recently, of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser.
