The Bridegroom Was a Dog
15 January 2013
Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.
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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E Book, 2022
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Paperback, 2022
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Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
Paperback, 2024
On the heels ofScattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada’s new and irresistibleSuggested in the Starscarries on her band of friends’ astonishing and intrepid adventures
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 2018 National Book Award
Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
E Book, 2022
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2018 National Book Award