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Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German and has received numerous awards, including the Tanizaki Prize and the Goethe Medal. In 2018 her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award.
Cindy Kay is a Chinese Thai American narrator and educator who grew up in the California Bay Area and lives in the Rockies. Her work has been described as listening to a "cozy best friend." She narrates fiction and nonfiction, and has studied Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, and Japanese.
MARGARET MITSUTANI has also translated Japan's 1994 Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburo Oe.
Tawada's strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity, and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own.
-- "New Yorker"Threats abound―a changing climate, terrorism, and hostile political structures create danger and uncertainty―but these characters carry within themselves the seeds of a possible new world.
-- "Foreword Reviews"
