Memoirs of a Polar Bear
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 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 foreigner as the author and the figures that fill this book: the ghost of a burned woman, a woman traveling on the Trans-Siberian railroad, a mechanical doll, a tongue, a monk who leaps into his own reflection. Tawada playfully makes the experience of estrangement--of a being in-between--both sensual and bewildering, and as a result practically invents a new way of seeing things while telling a fine story.| Country | USA |
| Author | Yoko Tawada |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Brand | Brand: New Directions |
| EAN | 9780811217026 |
| Feature | Used Book in Good Condition |
| IsAdultProduct | |
| ISBN | 0811217027 |
| Label | New Directions |
| Manufacturer | New Directions |
| MPN | 9780811217026 |
| NumberOfItems | 1 |
| NumberOfPages | 208 |
| PartNumber | 9780811217026 |
| PublicationDate | 2007-05-17 |
| Publisher | New Directions |
| Studio | New Directions |
| ReleaseDate | 0000-00-00 |
