{"product_id":"9780349704234","title":"Spontaneous Acts","description":"Author: Yoko Tawada\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349704234\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Dialogue\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 09 Jul 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 128 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePatrik is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life after lockdown. Though his beloved opera houses are open again, Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get out of bed.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe is supposed to give a paper at a conference in Paris, on the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eThreadsuns\u003c\/i\u003e by Paul Celan, but he can't get past the first question on the registration form: 'What is your nationality?'\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Patrik attempts to find a connection in a world that constantly overwhelms him, he meets a mysterious stranger. The man's name is Leo-Eric Fu, and somehow he already knows Patrik . . .\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYoko Tawada's mesmerizing new novel unfolds like a lucid dream in which the solace of friendship, reading, conversation, music - of seeing and being seen - is examined and celebrated.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpontaneous Acts\u003c\/i\u003e reaches out to all of us who find meaning and even obsession in the words of those before us.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrevious praise for Tawada:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives us new senses in return.' Madeleine Thien, author of \u003ci\u003eDo Not Say We Have Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Something about the way Tawada writes . . . allows the reader to take the most surreal and fantastical elements of the work completely seriously.' Lucy Scholes\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things.' Sara Baume, author of \u003ci\u003eSpill Simmer Falter Wither\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46482752635038,"sku":"ADS-9780349704234","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349704234.jpg?v=1770351955","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780349704234","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}