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Memoirs of a Polar Bear

By Yoko Tawada

Memoirs of a Polar Bear Historical Fiction

Memoirs of a Polar Bear

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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 as both 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."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
252
Release Date:
2016-11-08
Publication Date:
2016-11-08
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
081122578X
ISBN13:
9780811225786
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
276 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
20 cm

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