the emissary

Books | WORKS BY JAPANESE WOMEN Mar 16, 2019

Yoko Tawada: Wondrously strange subject matter from a fantastical imagination

by Kris Kosaka

Prize-winning author Yoko Tawada tethers her playful prose to realistic social issues: gender roles, immigration, aging societies. Writing in both Japanese and German, her novels have crossed multiple cultural boundaries.

Books Aug 4, 2018

'The Emissary': Power, poison, pain and joy inside its DNA

by Louise George Kittaka

In her latest work, "The Emissary," Yoko Tawada joins the ranks of other Japanese writers who use their writing to comment on the catastrophic and irrevocable effects of environmental disasters on society.