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The Bridegroom Was a Dog - New Directions Pearls

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780811220378
Publisher: New Directions
Imprint: New Directions Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 895.635
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 59
Weight: 64g
Height: 178mm
Width: 118mm
Spine width: 7mm