← Yoko Tawada

The Naked Eye

Novel about a translator experiencing displacement and cultural dislocation

About the author

Japanese-German author who writes in both Japanese and German and is celebrated for fiction that treats language itself as an alien, defamiliarizing medium. Memoirs of a Polar Bear and The Emissary are among her internationally celebrated works.

More by Yoko Tawada

Memoirs of a Polar BearMultigenerational tale of three polar bears navigating survival and displacement
Where Europe BeginsEssay exploring cultural displacement and belonging between Europe and Asia
Scattered All Over the EarthScience fiction novel about diverse humans scattered across a climate-changed Earth
The EmissaryNovella about a mysterious emissary communicating between human and alien worlds