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Where Europe Begins in Bloomington, MN
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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.
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.
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