Where Europe Begins (Paperback)
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. Often set in physical spaces as disparate as Japan,Siberia,Russia,and Germany,these tales describe a fragmented world where even a city or the human body can become a sort of text. Suddenly,the reader becomes as much a