Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things -- Sara Baume
Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives us new senses in return -- Madeleine Thien
Tawada disrupts our perception and reveals the terror and beauty of our world as we get lost in it, and regain our footing through reading her novels -- Kit Fan
Tawada's prose is light on its feet, informal while still feeling deliberate, providing delicate and straightforward descriptions of events that are often complicated and bizarre * New York Times *
Tawada is, far and away, one of my favourite writers working today - thrilling, discomforting, uncannily beautiful, like no one you have ever read before -- Laura van den Berg
Both delightfully dreamlike and cuttingly sharp * Economist *
I will read anything Yoko Tawada writes. To me, she is one of the most inventive writers writing today
A strange, meandering, but compelling tale... Finds both a yearning for a state beyond language, and a joy in the necessity of it * Locus *
Nothing short of triumphant... On a planet made up of fraught borders and weighed down with intertwined migrant and climate crises, Tawada's willingness to probe has never been more needed * FT *

Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German. She has received the Akutagawa Prize among other awards, and is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Bridegroom was a Dog, Scattered all Over the Earth, The Naked Eye and The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award under the title The Emissary. Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburö Öe.