{"product_id":"where-europe-begins-stories","title":"Where Europe Begins: Stories","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWhere Europe Begins: Stories\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eYoko Tawada\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811217026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2007\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eSecond\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eChosen as a 2005 \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year, \u003cem\u003eWhere Europe Begins\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eHilaritas\u003c\/em\u003e: the goddess of rejoicing.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Where Europe Begins: Stories | Yoko Tawada | Paperback | 9780811217026 | New | Fiction 1405619","offer_id":50561088454914,"sku":"1405619","price":29.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61oSaVjSEUL.jpg?v=1790705213","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/where-europe-begins-stories","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}