The Bridegroom Was a Dog
Author(s): Yoko Tawada
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : New Directions Publishing Corporation
- : New Directions Publishing Corporation
- : 0.064
- : 15 December 2012
- : 178mm X 114mm X 8mm
- : United States
- : 04 January 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Yoko Tawada
- : Paperback
- : 895.635
- : 60