I do like Murakami, but being honest, his two latest novels (Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage & Killing Commendatore) have been a complete letdown. 1Q84 was IMO, his last good novel.
Thank you very much Ben!
I'll give this one a try. Although only once did I bring myself to finish one of his novels (after dark). I tried "Wind-up bird...", "Hard Boiled...", "Killing Commendatore" but they weren't my cup of tea. But let's see... I'm curious about this one! I read a review (full of spoilers!!) and although it was a negative one, It let me more excited to read "the city..."
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I forget that his originals are in German. Anyway have to wait until the library gets the book.New Tawada is forthcoming. It looks fascinating:
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada | New Directions
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...
what great news!!!! thanks for the info.New Tawada is forthcoming. It looks fascinating:
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada | New Directions
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...
100 % in agreement..
Tawada writes in both languages, but Celan's originals are in German, although he was .....
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Tawada writes in both languages, but Celan's originals are in German, although he was .....
Sorry!
On the other hand, there are more fascinating books from New Direction are forthcoming:
Bei Dao:
Sidetracks by Bei Dao | New Directions
Sidetracks, Bei Dao’s first new collection in almost fifteen years, is also the poet’s first long poem and his magnum opus —the artistic culmination of a lifetime devoted to the renewal and reinvention of language. “As a poet, I am always lost,” Bei Dao on...
Elias Canetti:
The Book Against Death by Elias Canetti | New Directions
The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti’s powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, and musings on and against death. Evoking despair, melancholy, and fury, Canetti examines the inevitable...
I don't know, actually. I have some of his volumes, but didn't read it yet.
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You mean her last book of short stories or the novel?
Our Share of Night? I couldn't finish the last hundred pages. Enjoyable, but I think the book would've benefited from some fat-trimming.
