Spontaneous Acts av Yoko Tawada

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<p><b>The highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.</b><br><br>Patrik 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.<br><br>He is supposed to give a paper at a conference in Paris, on the poetry collection <i>Threadsuns</i> by Paul Celan, but he can''t get past the first question on the registration form: ''What is your nationality?''<br><br>As 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 . . .<br><br>Yoko Tawada''s mesmerizing new novel unfolds like a lucid dream in which the solace of friendship, reading, conversation, music - of seeing and being seen - is examined and celebrated.<br><br><i>Spontaneous Acts</i> reaches out to all of us who find