The Naked Eye

“Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency.”―Michael Porter, The New York Times

A precocious Vietnamese high school student ― known as the pupil with “the iron blouse”―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 “Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism,” she is abruptly kidnapped and taken... >Voir plus