Where Europe Begins: Stories
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,...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780811217026 (0811217027)
Publish date: May 17th 2007
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Edition language: English