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YOKO TAWADA was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German and has received the Akutagawa, Lessing, Kleist, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso and Tanizaki prizes as well as the Goethe Medal. She is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear and The Last Children of Tokyo. In 2018 her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award. MARGARET MITSUTANI is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburo Oe (Japan's 1994 Nobel Prize laureate).
The novel is inventive at sentence level, absurd at plot level, yet strangely penetrating at psychological level... Margaret Mitsutani does an expert job... chaos and cleverness combine so well to bewitch the reader -- Ronan Hession * Irish Times * A new kind of novel... (Margaret Mitsutani's translation, incorporating so many different languages, rhyme schemes and linguistic misunderstandings, is also a serious accomplishment.) Suggested in the Stars teases a decisive and exciting finale to come, a further journey for this wild group of fit-together misfits. But for now, this second installment is a weird and wonderful adventure on its own * New York Times * 'Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives new senses in return' -- Madeleine Thien 'Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things' -- Sara Baume
