{"product_id":"the-naked-eye-paperback","title":"The Naked Eye - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYoko Tawada\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSusan Bernofsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 to a small town in West Germany. After a strange spell of domestic-sexual boredom with her lover-abductor--and though \"the Berlin Wall was said to be more difficult to break through than the Great Wall of China\" -- 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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), \u003cem\u003eThe Naked Eye\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel that is as surprising as it is delightful--each of the thirteen chapters titled after and framed by one of Deneuve's films. \"As far as I was concerned,\" the narrator says while watching Deneuve on the screen, \"the only woman in the world was you, and so I did not exist.\" 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 6.8 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 26, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757715816736,"sku":"9780811217392","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/755b724b958d5cecfff846333f7af6bb.webp?v=1780109821","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-naked-eye-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}