The Bridegroom Was a Dog

von Yoko Tawada

64 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• ISBN: 9780811220378
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2012
• Größe: 177 x 116 mm
• Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Übersetzung: Margaret Mitsutani