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Memoirs of a Polar Bear

Memoirs of a Polar Bear

Tawada, Yoko
Bernofsky, Susan

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Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 081122578X
ISBN13: 9780811225786
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Nov 8 2016
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

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...

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