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The Bridegroom Was a Dog

Yoko Tawada author Margaret Mitsutani translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published:15th Jan '13

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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.

"Her masterpiece." -- Parul Sehgal - The New York Times

ISBN: 9780811220378

Dimensions: 180mm x 114mm x 8mm

Weight: 52g

64 pages