Yoko Tawada

Where Europe Begins: Stories (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Bernofsky, Susan; Selden, Yumi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers.

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 settingsJapan, Siberia, Russia, and Germanythe 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811223515
• Artikelnr.: 59590784

Autorenporträt

Born in Tokyo in 1960, Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German: she has received the Akutagawa, Kleist, Lessing, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso, and Tanizaki prizes, as well as the Goethe Medal. Her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award. Rivka Galchen in the New York Times Magazine hailed her work as magnificently strange.