Spontaneous Acts

Praise for Yoko Tawada 'Something about the way Tawada writes... allows the reader to take the most surreal and fantastical elements of the work completely seriously' Lucy Scholes 'Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things' Sara Baume Praise for The Last Children of Tokyo 'Hums with beautiful strangeness' New York Times 'Achieves a technically impossible balance of open-hearted fable and cold-blooded satire' Financial Times 'A joyful exploration of language, a constantly surprising and exciting romp' Daisy Johnson 'Carries us beyond the limits of what it is to be human, in order to remind us what we must hold dearest in our conflicted world, our humanity' Sjón