Yoko Tawada

Yoko Tawada's new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her "brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness"

The Emissary

in 2018 i wrote a very similar paragraph about “the moon” shining too bright through my window and it turning out to be a street light. it has since burnt out. 

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At bedtime you’d turn off the light, only to find the moon so bright you couldn’t sleep. Wondering how it could possibly be that bright you’d open a window to find the moon wasn't even out. It would only be the lead of a pencil left in the road that looked as if it was shining. Streetlights and lights in the houses would all be out, as if urging the night to act like night already,

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