Paul Celan & the Trans-Tibetan Angel
Yōko Tawada (Author), Susan Bernofsky (Translator)
"Patrik, who sometimes calls himself 'the patient,' is a literary researcher living in Berlin. The city is just coming back to life, and his beloved opera houses are open again, but Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get out of bed. When he shaves his head, his girlfriend says to him, 'What have you done? I don't want to be with a prisoner from a concentration camp!' He is supposed to give a paper on the poetry collection Threadsuns by Paul Celan at a conference in Paris, but he cannot manage to get past the first question on the registration form: 'What is your nationality?' At a café he meets a mysterious stranger who sits down at his table. The man's name is Leo-Eric Fu, and somehow he already knows Patrik."-- Page 4 of cover
Print Book, English, 2024
New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, 2024