Memoirs of a polar bear / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.

"The Memoirs of a Polar Bear is a novel that stars three generations of talented writers and performers who happen to be polar bears. The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in The New Yorker as "Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness"--Tawada is an aut...

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Main Author: Tawada, Yōko, 1960- (Author)
Other Authors: Bernofsky, Susan (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016.
Series:New Directions paperbook ; 1362.
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Uniform Title:Etüden im Schnee.

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