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The Naked Eye

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The Naked Eye

â€œTawadaâ€™s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency.â€â€•Michael Porter, The New York Times
A precocious Vietnamese high school student â€• known as the pupil with â€œthe iron blouseâ€â€•in Ho Chi Minh City is invited to an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. But, in East Berlin, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on â€œVietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism,â€ she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany. After a strange spell of domestic-sexual boredom with her lover-abductorâ€•and though â€œthe Berlin Wall was said to be more difficult to break through than the Great Wall of Chinaâ€ â€• she escapes on a train to Moscow . . . but mistakenly arrives in Paris. Alone, broke, and in a completely foreign land, Anh (her false name) loses herself in the films of Catherine Deneuve as her real adventures begin.

Dreamy, meditative, and filled with the gritty everyday perils of a person living somewhere without papers (at one point Anh is subjected to some vampire-like skin experiments), The Naked Eye is a novel that is as surprising as it is delightfulâ€•each of the thirteen chapters titled after and framed by one of Deneuveâ€™s films. â€œAs far as I was concerned,â€ the narrator says while watching Deneuve on the screen, â€œthe only woman in the world was you, and so I did not exist.â€ By the time 1989 comes along and the Iron Curtain falls, story and viewer have morphed into the dislocating beauty of both dancer and dance.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780811217392
ReleaseDate 2009-05-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811217392

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