{"product_id":"where-europe-begins-stories-9780811217026","title":"Where Europe Begins: Stories","description":"Chosen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernofsky, Susan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eSusan Bernofsky\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTawada, Yoko:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eYoko Tawada\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German and has received the Akutagawa, Lessing, Kleist, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso and Tanizaki prizes as well as the Goethe Medal. In 2018 her novel \u003cem\u003eThe Emissary\u003c\/em\u003e won the National Book Award.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649901367570,"sku":"9780811217026","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_10dc568d-f062-429a-ad6c-451715a2d1cf.jpg?v=1733276502","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/where-europe-begins-stories-9780811217026","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}