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Title Statement | Memoirs of a polar bear / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky. |
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Author | Tawada, Yōko, 1960- |
Additional Contributors | Bernofsky, Susan |
Publication | New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation,2016.©2016 |
Extent of Item | 252 pages ; |
ISBN | 081122578X (pbk.) 9780811225786 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3153315 |
General Notes | Translation of: Etüden im Schnee. "A New Directions paperbook original." |
Summary | "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..."--Provided by publisher |
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By Topic | Polar bear--Fiction |
Emigration and immigration--Fiction | |
Human-animal relationships--Fiction | |
By Genre | Allegories |