{"product_id":"naked-eye","title":"Naked Eye","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNaked Eye\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eYoko Tawada\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811217392\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eSecond\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Naked Eye | Yoko Tawada | Book | 9780811217392 | New | Fiction 1405620","offer_id":50561095729410,"sku":"1405620","price":29.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/41tnQpFQeEL.jpg?v=1790705290","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/naked-eye","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}