Surprise Castle
/Books
Where Europe Begins: Stories

Where Europe Begins: Stories - Paperback

by Yoko Tawada
$11.99
$15.95
-25%
Quantity
01

Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with

Availability:In StockContributor:Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky (Translator), Yumi Selden (Translator)Series:New Directions PaperbookPublish date:2007-05-17Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811217026ISBN-10:811217027UPC:9780811217026Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), LiterarySize:6.72 x 4.87 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC55B0HAS9
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811217026ISBN-10:811217027UPC:9780811217026Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), LiterarySize:6.72 x 4.87 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC55B0HAS9
Bernofsky, Susan: - Susan Bernofsky is the acclaimed translator of Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize. She teaches literary translation at Columbia University and lives in New York.Tawada, Yoko: - Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German and has received the Akutagawa, Lessing, Kleist, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso and Tanizaki prizes as well as the Goethe Medal. In 2018 her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Contributor(s)

Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky (Translator), Yumi Selden (Translator)

Author

Yoko Tawada

Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.

Recently Viewed

View All