The Naked Eye

Resumen del libro

A young Vietnamese woman is invited to travel from Ho Chi Minh City to speak at an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. On her arrival, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on 'Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism', she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town on the western side of the Berlin Wall. There she falls under a strange spell of domestic and sexual boredom with her abductor, until one night she manages to escape on a train to Moscow...

but mistakenly arrives in Paris. Alone, penniless, and in a completely foreign land, Anh (her false name) wanders the fringes of society, meeting a sex worker, another Vietnamese immigrant, a theatre troupe and other shadowy characters. But at the centre of her new life is Catherine Deneuve, the iconic film star whose films she loses herself in and who becomes the object of her obsessions.

Crossing borders of language, nation, ethnicity, sexuality and art, The Naked Eye is a cinematic, incandescent novel that anticipates and embodies our twenty-first century nightmares and dreams.

Biografía del autor

p strong Yoko Tawada /strong (Tokio, 1960) se trasladó a Hamburgo cuando tenía veintidós años y se instaló en Berlín en 2006. Escribe tanto en japonés, su lengua materna, como en alemán. Ha publicado novelas, cuentos, piezas teatrales y ensayos, y ha recibido numerosos galardones, como el Premio Akutagawa, el Tanizaki, el Adelbert von Chamisso y la Medalla Goethe. En Anagrama ha publicado strong em Memorias de una osa polar /em /strong (Premio Warwick para Obras Traducidas Escritas por Mujeres): Lean con un lápiz en la mano. No dejarán de subrayar frases inteligentísimas (Fran G. Matute, em El /em em Cultural /em ); strong em El emisario /em /strong , con el que obtuvo el National Book Award en 2018: Prosa poética impregnada de nostalgia para referirse a un pasado que tampoco era tan bueno y a un presente en el que, pese a ser desgarrador, no dejan de brillar luces de esperanza Una obra de ciencia ficción distópica vestida de fábula, con una premisa prometedora que cautiva desde la primera página (Eduard Martí, em Zenda /em ); y em strong Desperdigados por el mundo /strong /em .<br>