| Title | : | The Bridegroom Was a Dog (New Directions Pearls) |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Yoko Tawada & Margaret Mitsutani |
| Release | : | 2012-11-27 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Fiction & Literature, Books, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales, Myths & Fables |
| Size | : | 217255 |
| Internationally acclaimed author Yoko Tawada's most famous — and bizarre — tale in a stand-alone, New Directions Pearl edition. 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. |
