through the lens of a succession of characters
this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s masterpiece honors the author's original intentions and vision for the book
hires a detective to dig into the mysterious man’s past and what he seems to be trying so hard to forget
Embracing Defeat is a work of colossal scholarship and history of the very first order
The Balkans reveals with piercing clarity the historical roots of current conflicts and gives a landmark reassessment of the region’s history
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel Lujin through the lens of aA moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan by the astonishing Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award Patrik, who sometimes calls himself the patient, is a literary researcher living in present day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open again, but Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get out of bed. When he shaves his head, his girlfriend