Memoirs of a Polar Bear

by Yōko Tawada

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081122578X
• ISBN13: 9780811225786
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"