The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the
supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse," as the
narrator muses on former East Berlin's new bourgeois health food
stores, so popular with wealthy young people, a ghost boy begs her
to buy him the old-fashioned sweets he craves. She worries that
sugar's still sugar-but why lecture him, since he's already dead?
Then white feathers fall from her head and she seems to be turning
into a crane . . . Pure white kittens and a great Russian poet
haunt "Majakowskiring": the narrator who reveres Mayakovsky's work
is delighted to meet his ghost. And finally, in "Pushkin Allee," a
huge Soviet-era memorial of soldiers comes to life-and, "for a
scene of carnage everything was awfully well-ordered." Each of
these stories opens up into new dimensions the work of this
magisterial writer.
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