Where Europe Begins

Name: Where Europe Begins
Author: Yoko Tawada

by Yoko Tawada

Essay exploring cultural displacement and belonging between Europe and Asia

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About the author

Yoko Tawada

Japanese-German author who writes in both Japanese and German and is celebrated for fiction that treats language itself as an alien, defamiliarizing medium. Memoirs of a Polar Bear and The Emissary are among her internationally celebrated works.

More by Yoko Tawada

Memoirs of a Polar BearMultigenerational tale of three polar bears navigating survival and displacement
The Naked EyeNovel about a translator experiencing displacement and cultural dislocation
Scattered All Over the EarthScience fiction novel about diverse humans scattered across a climate-changed Earth
The EmissaryNovella about a mysterious emissary communicating between human and alien worlds