Where Europe Begins
Yoko Tawada author Susan Bernofsky translator Yumi Selden translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Granta Books
Publishing:14th Jan '27
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 14th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers.
A collection of startling 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. Moving around the world from Japan, to Siberia, to Germany, these tales describe a fragmented world where even a city or the human body can become a sort of text.
Only the most profound reverence, I felt, could do justice to this writer and this work -- Wim Wenders
Tawada disrupts our perception and reveals the terror and beauty of our world as we get lost in it, and regain our footing through reading her novels -- Kit Fan
Tawada's prose is light on its feet, informal while still feeling deliberate, providing delicate and straightforward descriptions of events that are often complicated and bizarre * New York Times *
Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things -- Sara Baume
Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives us new senses in return -- Madeleine Thien
Tawada is, far and away, one of my favourite writers working today - thrilling, discomforting, uncannily beautiful, like no one you have ever read before -- Laura Van den Berg
An undeniably superb, even breathtaking short story collection about life spent in the in-between by the Japanese-born, German-domiciled, multi-dimensioned Tawada * Asian Week *
ISBN: 9781803511863
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
224 pages