{"product_id":"where-europe-begins-stories-new-directions-paperbook-0811217027","title":"Where Europe Begins: Stories (New Directions Paperbook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0811217027\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tawada, Yoko\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51974503170336,"sku":"NEW0811217027","price":15.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/where-europe-begins-stories-new-directions-paperbook-0811217027","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}