num_pages: 208
description: A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers. 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.
language: English
title: Where Europe Begins: Stories
titlecomplete: Where Europe Begins: Stories (New Directions Paperbook)
genres: Fiction, Asia, Short Stories, Japan, German Literature, Womens, Japanese Literature, Literature, Contemporary, Germany
ratings_count: 486
publisher: New Directions