The Bridegroom Was a Dog, Paperback

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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.

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Yoko Tawada

scriitoare japoneză · n. 1960

Yōko Tawada este o scriitoare japoneză care locuiește în prezent în Berlin, Germania. Scrie atât în limba japoneză cât și în germană.