{"product_id":"spontaneous-acts-by-yoko-tawada-9780349704234","title":"Spontaneous Acts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePatrik is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life after lockdown. Though his beloved opera houses are open again, Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get out of bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe is supposed to give a paper at a conference in Paris, on the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eThreadsuns\u003c\/i\u003e by Paul Celan, but he can't get past the first question on the registration form: 'What is your nationality?'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Patrik attempts to find a connection in a world that constantly overwhelms him, he meets a mysterious stranger. The man's name is Leo-Eric Fu, and somehow he already knows Patrik...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYoko Tawada's mesmerizing new novel unfolds like a lucid dream in which the solace of friendship, reading, conversation, and music - of seeing and being seen - is examined and celebrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpontaneous Acts\u003c\/i\u003e reaches out to all of us who find meaning and even obsession in the words of those before us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003ePrevious praise for Tawada:\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives us new senses in return.' Madeleine Thien, author of \u003ci\u003eDo Not Say We Have Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Something about the way Tawada writes... allows the reader to take the most surreal and fantastical elements of the work completely seriously.' Lucy Scholes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things.' Sara Baume, author of \u003ci\u003eSpill Simmer Falter Wither\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46715021099244,"sku":"9780349704234","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c30e624c417c65b886d499786cf1d5c9.jpg?v=1754431969","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/spontaneous-acts-by-yoko-tawada-9780349704234","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}