The naked eye

Yōko Tawada

Original title: Das nackte Auge

earliest edition we have, 2004 New Directions Pub., 2009 228 pages

"A young Vietnamese woman is invited to speak at an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. On her arrival, she is kidnapped to a small town on the other side of the Berlin Wall. There she falls under a strange spell of domestic-sexual boredom with her lover-abductor until one night she manages to escape on a train to Russia, but unexpectedly ends up in Paris. Alone, penniless, and in a completely foreign land...

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The naked eye edition · 2009 · New Directions Pub. · 228 pages · 9780811217392
Das nackte Auge edition · 2004 · Konkursbuchverlag · 189 pages

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