β Scribed by Yoko Tawada
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The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers--who happen to be polar bears
The Memoirs of a Polar Bear 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 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...
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"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. T
The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers--who happen to be polar bears **The Memoirs of a Polar Bear 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 Galche
The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performersβwho happen to be polar bears **The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performersβwho happen to be polar bears** The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen h
Nick hates the holidays. Seeing everyone happy and celebrating with loved ones always reminds the polar bear shifter of his greatest regret. Not starting a family of his own. To add insult to injury, heβs sure he met the perfect woman for him once. He just didnβt have enough time to ask for her numb