Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue by Yoko Tawada
Author:Yoko Tawada
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Essay
ISBN: 978-0-7766-2127-2
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2013-09-24T16:00:00+00:00
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Her older sister had always been their parents’ favourite, but P didn’t have a problem with that because her sister was going to take over their father’s business, P told me in a bookshop as we were looking for Eva Hoffman’s book Lost in Translation.
As a young woman, her sister had sat in the store every day, reading novels, whereas P had looked for a window onto the wider world. Even as a girl P felt that she would leave her hometown one day.
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As a rule she cannot stand sugary pastries cooked in oil. When her mother was still alive, she always got a packet of Lebkuchen at Christmas. She passed it on to her students.
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