Where Europe Begins/Yoko Tawada Signed Inscribed/2002/New Directions

by Yoko Tawada

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Signed

Inscribed by the author on the title page in black ink: "for David" with her signature "Yoko" in Roman script, accompanied by her name written in Japanese kanji: 多和田葉子 (Tawada Yoko). The recipient David is almost certainly David Draper Clark, successor editor of World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma, connecting this copy directly to the WLT provenance group. Paperbacm published by New Directions, New York, 2002. ISBN 0-8112-1515-6. Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky and from the Japanese by Yumi Selden. With a preface by Wim Wenders. Yoko Tawada (b. 1960) is one of the most celebrated contemporary writers working across Japanese and German, winner of the Akutagawa Prize, the Kleist Prize, and the Chamisso Prize among many others. Where Europe Begins is her breakthrough English-language collection, bringing together stories and prose poems that explore displacement, language, and identity along the Trans-Siberian Railway and through the landscapes of East and West. Paperback boards clean and square. Dust jacket bright with minimal wear. Interior clean with no marks beyond the author's inscription. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Year: 2002
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780811217026
• Condition: Fine

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