The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yoko Tawada
A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo
Her masterpiece * New York Times *
Brilliant, shimmering strangeness -- Rivka Galchen
Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things -- Sara Baume
Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives us new senses in return -- Madeleine Thien
Tawada is, far and away, one of my favourite writers working today - thrilling, discomforting, uncannily beautiful, like no one you have ever read before -- Laura van den Berg
Brilliant, shimmering strangeness -- Rivka Galchen
Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things -- Sara Baume
Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives us new senses in return -- Madeleine Thien
Tawada is, far and away, one of my favourite writers working today - thrilling, discomforting, uncannily beautiful, like no one you have ever read before -- Laura van den Berg
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 received the Akutagawa, Lessing, Kleist, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso and Tanizaki prizes as well as the Goethe Medal. She is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Last Children of Tokyo and Scattered All Over the Earth. In 2018 her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award.
MARGARET MITSUTANI is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburo Oe (Japan's 1994 Nobel Prize laureate).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781803511320 |
| ISBN 10 | 180351132X |
| Title | The Bridegroom Was a Dog |
| Author | Yoko Tawada |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2024-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
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