Yoko Tawada 
Where Europe Begins: Stories [EPUB ebook] 

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 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.

About the author

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.