Where Europe Begins presents a collection of startling new stories by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and every-day reality, Tawada\'s work blurs divisions between fact and fiction, prose and poetry. Often set in physical spaces as disparate as Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany, these tales describe a fragmented world where even a city or the human body can become a sort of text. Suddenly, the reader becomes as much a foreigner as the author and the figures that fill this book: the ghost of a burned woman, a woman traveling on the Trans-Siberian railroad, a mechanical doll, a tongue, a monk who leaps into his own reflection. Tawada playfully makes the experience of estrangement--of a being in-between--both sensual and bewildering, and as a result practically invents a new way of seeing things while telling a fine story.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811217027
ISBN-13
9780811217026
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95870515
Product Key Features
Book Title
Where Europe Begins: Stories
Author
Yoko Tawada
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Encyclopedias & General Référence
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
178mm
Item Width
127mm
Item Weight
205g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Yoko Tawada
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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