Where Europe Begins: Stories
Where Europe Begins: Stories
Where Europe Begins: Stories
Description
Description
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.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
Tawada's slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency. Each one sustains a masterly balance between the tenuous but meaningful connections of dreams and the direct, earthy storytelling of folk tales.-- "The New York Times"
In Tawada's work, one has the feeling of having wandered into a mythology that is not one's own.--Rivka Galchen "The New Yorker"
Only the most profound reverence, I felt, could do justice to this writer and this work.--Wim Wenders
A spectacular journey through a world of colliding languages and multiplying cities.--Victor Pelevin
An undeniably superb, even breathtaking short story collection about life spent in the in-between by the Japanese-born, German-domiciled, multi-dimensioned Tawada.-- "Asian Week"
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub date:
2007-05-17
Length:
224 pages
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