Where Europe Begins
Fictionby Yoko Tawada
Translated from German by Susan Bernofsky
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.
Paperback(published Oct, 01 2002)
- ISBN
- 9780811217026
- Price US
- 15.95
- Trim Size
- 5x7
- Page Count
- 224
Clothbound(published Oct, 01 2002)
- ISBN
- 9780811215152
- Price US
- 23.95
- Trim Size
- 5x7
- Page Count
- 224
Ebook(published Oct, 01 2002)
- ISBN
- 9780811223515
- Page Count
- 224