Memoirs of a Polar Bear

✍ Scribed by Tawada, Yoko

• Book ID: 109287658
• Publisher: New Directions
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: de-DE
• Weight: 597 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780811225786

✦ Synopsis

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...