Memoirs of a polar bear
(Book)
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Author
Contributors
Bernofsky, Susan, translator.
Status
Adult Fiction - South Wing Basement
Tawada
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Tawada
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Format
Book
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
UPC
40026606309
Notes
General Note
Translated from the German.
General Note
"A New Directions paperbook original."
Description
"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.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Tawada, Y., & Bernofsky, S. (2016). Memoirs of a polar bear . New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tawada, Yōko, 1960- and Susan, Bernofsky. 2016. Memoirs of a Polar Bear. New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tawada, Yōko, 1960- and Susan, Bernofsky. Memoirs of a Polar Bear New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Tawada, Yōko, and Susan Bernofsky. Memoirs of a Polar Bear New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016.
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