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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
288
Utgivningsdatum
2016-12-30
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
Översättare
Susan Bernofsky
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177 x 127 x 19 mm
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272 g
ISBN
9780811225786

Memoirs of a Polar Bear

av Yoko Tawada
Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-12-30
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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 Leipzig zoo but raised by a human keeper in relatively happy circumstances in the Berlin zoo, until his keeper, Matthias, is taken away... Happy or sad, each bear writes a story, enjoying both celebrity and "the intimacy of being alone with my pen."
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Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German, and has published several books-stories, novels, poems, plays, essays-in both languages. She has received numerous awards for her writing including the Akutagawa Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Goethe Medal, and the National Book Award. New Directions publishes her story collections¿Where Europe Begins¿(with a Preface by Wim Wenders) and¿Facing the Bridge, as well her novels¿The Naked Eye,¿The Bridegroom Was a Dog,¿Memoirs of a Polar Bear,¿The Emissary,¿Scattered All over the Earth,¿Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel,¿Suggested in the Stars, and forthcoming in autumn 2025 is¿Archipelago of the Sun, the final novel in her¿Scattered¿trilogy. ¿ For New Directions, Susan Bernofsky has translated Yoko Tawada's Where Europe Begins, The Naked Eye, and Memoirs of a Polar Bear (winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation), eight titles by the great Swiss-German modernist Robert Walser, and five books by Jenny Erpenbeck, including The End of Days (winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize). She is the author of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser, and teaches at Columbia University, where she also directs the literary translation program.

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