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Memoirs of a Polar Bear
New Directions
ISBN13:
9780811225786
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The Memoirs of a Polar Bear is a novel that stars three generations of talented writers and performers who happen to be polar bears. The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in The New Yorker as Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness"--Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous, both as circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary world. In Chapter One, the grandmother matriarch in the Soviet Union accidentally writes a bestselling autobiography. In Chapter Two, Tosca, her daughter (born in Canada, where her mother had emigrated) moves to the DDR and takes a job in the circus. Her son--the last of their line--is Knut, born in Chapter Three in a Leipzig zoo, but raised by a human keeper in relatively happy circumstances in the Berlin zoo, until his keeper, Matthias, is taken away... Happy or sad, each bear writes a story, enjoying both celebrity and "the intimacy of being alone with my pen.""--
- | Author: Yoko Tawada
- | Publisher: New Directions
- | Publication Date: November 08, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 288 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 081122578X
- | ISBN-13: 9780811225786
- Author:
- Yoko Tawada
- Publisher:
- New Directions
- Publication Date:
- November 08, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 288 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 081122578X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780811225786