Where Europe Begins (New Directions Paperbook)

Where Europe Begins (New Directions Paperbook)
by Yoko Tawada

Where Europe Begins (New Directions Paperbook)
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Author: Yoko Tawada
Translator: Susan Bernofsky
Translator: Yumi Selden
Introduction: Wim Wenders
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-28
ISBN: 0811217027
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: New Directions
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Summary of Where Europe Begins (New Directions Paperbook)

A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers.

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.

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