Where Europe begins
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Where Europe begins
（A New Directions paperbook, 1079）
New Directions, 2007, c2002
- : pbk
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Note
"Of the stories contained in this volume, two ('The bath' and 'Spores') were written in Japanese, and the rest in German"--Translators' note
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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.
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