The Bridegroom Was a Dog
Description
Internationally acclaimed author Yoko Tawada's most famous — and bizarre — tale in a stand-alone, New Directions Pearl edition.
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.
Reviews
"Her masterpiece." — Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
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Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
Hardback, 2022
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E Book, 2022
Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin
Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
Paperback, 2022
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award
Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
E Book, 2022
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award
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E Book, 2018
Winner of 2018 National Book Award in Translated Literature
Library Journal Best Books of 2018
Yoko Tawada’s new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays...
Also By: Margaret Mitsutani
Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
Hardback, 2022
Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin
Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
E Book, 2022
Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin
Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
Paperback, 2022
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award
Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
E Book, 2022
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award
Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
E Book, 2018
Winner of 2018 National Book Award in Translated Literature
Library Journal Best Books of 2018
Yoko Tawada’s new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays...