*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.*Where Eur
Where Europe Begins: Stories
โ Scribed by Tawada, Yoko
- Book ID
- 100260347
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Year
- 2007;2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 131 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0811223515
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โฆ Synopsis
"In these stories' disparate settings - Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany - boundaries blur and shift between the physical and metaphysical, creating a fragmented world where a city or even the human body can become a sort of text. Suddenly, 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."--Jacket.;The bath -- Where Europe begins. The reflection ; Spores ; Canned foreign ; The talisman ; Raisin eyes ; Storytellers without souls ; Tongue dance ; Where Europe begins -- A guest.
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