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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies

• Full title: Where Europe Begins
• Author: Yoko Tawada
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780811217026
• ISBN: 0811217027
• ID: 04722236
• Publisher: William Morrow and Company
• Weight: 204 g
• Dimensions: 171 × 124 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. April 2007

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