雲をつかむ話 [Kumo o tsukamu hanashi]

by Yōko Tawada

犯人と出遭った心躍る話は、みんなに話してきかせたくなる。エルベ川沿いの家を訪ねてきた背の高い男。ブレーメン出身の「鱒男」。路面電車で見た双子の片割れ。本名で呼ぶことのできない「マボロシさん」……。雲を見ていると「互い違い」な出遭いの数々が浮かんでくる。野間文芸賞受賞後第一作、待望の長編小説。

Genres: Japan

255 pages, Hardcover

First published April 20, 2012

About the author

Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German.

Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master's degree in contemporary German literature. She received her doctorate in German literature at the University of Zurich. In 1987 she published Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts—Anata no iru tokoro dake nani mo nai (A Void Only Where You Are), a collection of poems in a German and Japanese bilingual edition.

Tawada's Missing Heels received the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 1991, and The Bridegroom Was a Dog received the Akutagawa Prize in 1993. In 1999 she became writer-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for four months. Her Suspect on the Night Train won the Tanizaki Prize and Ito Sei Literary Prize in 2003.

Tawada received the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 1996, a German award to foreign writers in recognition of their contribution to German culture, and the Goethe Medal in 2005.

(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Lucerooo123]

ISBN: 9787559883353

[Tallie]

4.5. Always, always love Tawada's works. The favourite chapter in this book is 9.

[Kai-Te Lin]

多和田葉子一直在反抗某種慣性，在主角數十年的細碎時刻，將某種確定的敘事打散，小徑相連，非常、非常厲害。

[mumu]

多和田非常擅长先给读者一个答案，然后又让我们跟着故事的流淌，导向河流的另一条分叉，接着这条新分叉继续分流、变化，一会儿若隐若现地消失进浅滩，一会儿又融入了另一条湍急之流......这样的云里雾里，模糊了现实与虚幻的边界，也模糊了虚幻中的真相——或许，当然没什么边界，也没有什么唯一的真相。