Where Europe Begins: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811217026)

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
ISBN-10: 0811217027
ISBN-13: 9780811217026
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2007
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.72h x 4.87w x 0.63d