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The Bridegroom Was a Dog

The Bridegroom Was a Dog

Mitsutani, Margaret
Tawada, Yoko

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Series: New Directions Pearls, Book 0

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Publisher Price: $10.95

ISBN10: 0811220370
ISBN13: 9780811220378
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Nov 27 2012
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.30 Depth: 6.80
Language: English

The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada's most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as, fast-moving, mysteriously compelling tale that has the dream quality of Kafka.

The Bridegroom Was a Dog begins with a schoolteacher telling a fable to her students. In the fable, a princess promises her hand in marriage to a dog that has licked her bottom clean. The story takes an even stranger twist when that very dog appears to the schoolteacher in real life as a dog-like man. They develop a very sexual, romantic courtship with many allegorical overtones -- much to the chagrin of her friends.

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