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Author:
Tawada, Yko, 1960- author.
Title:
Memoirs of a polar bear / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
252 pages ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Polar bear--Fiction.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Human-animal relationships--Fiction.
Allegories.
Other Authors:
Bernofsky, Susan, translator.
Other Titles:
Etùˆden im Schnee. English.
Notes:
"A New Directions paperbook original."
Summary:
"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.""-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
081122578X (pbk.) :
9780811225786 (pbk.) :
LCCN:
2016022379
Locations:
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
FCPB384 -- Dike Public Library (Dike)
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

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