{"product_id":"paul-celan-and-the-trans-tibetan-angel-paperback","title":"Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYoko Tawada\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSusan Bernofsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrik, who sometimes calls himself \"the patient,\" is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open again, but Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get out of bed. When he shaves his head, his girlfriend scolds him, \"What have you done to your head? I don't want to be with a prisoner from a concentration camp!\" He is supposed to give a paper at a conference in Paris, on the poetry collection \u003cem\u003eThreadsuns\u003c\/em\u003e by Paul Celan, but he can't manage to get past the first question on the registration form: \"What is your nationality?\" Then at a caf? (or in the memory of being at a caf??), he meets a mysterious stranger. The man's name is Leo-Eric Fu, and somehow he already knows Patrik...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spirit of imaginative homage like Roberto Bola?o's \u003cem\u003eMonsieur Pain\u003c\/em\u003e, Antonio Tabucchi's \u003cem\u003eRequiem\u003c\/em\u003e, and Thomas Bernhard's \u003cem\u003eWittgenstein's Nephew\u003c\/em\u003e, Yoko Tawada's mesmerizing new novel unfolds like a lucid dream in which friendship, conversation, reading, poetry, and music are the connecting threads that bind us together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 7.21 x 4.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52557452017971,"sku":"9780811234870","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/pGef2j5zG39780811234870.webp?v=1761184484","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/paul-celan-and-the-trans-tibetan-angel-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}