Chosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as “a spectacular journey through a world of colliding languages and multiplying cities.” In these stories’ disparate settings–Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany–the reader becomes as much a foreigner as the author, or the figures that fill this book: the ghost of a burned woman, a traveler on the Trans-Siberian railroad, a mechanical doll, a tongue, a monk who leaps into his own reflection. Through the timeless art of storytelling, Yoko Tawada discloses the virtues of bewilderment, estrangement, and Hilaritas: the goddess of rejoicing.
Author: Yoko Tawada
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/17/2007
Series: New Directions Paperbook
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.72h x 4.87w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780811217026
Language: English
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