The Naked Eye - Yoko Tawada desolate wilderness

desolate wilderness

The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko

the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption

and happiness is always within us if only we take a moment to see it

The Naked Eye - Yoko Tawada desolate wildernessA precocious Vietnamese high school student known as the pupil with the iron blouse in Ho Chi Minh City is invited to an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. But, in East Berlin, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism, she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany. After a strange spell of domestic sexual boredom with her lover abductor and though the Berlin