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Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780811220378
- ISBN-10: 0811220370
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: November 2012
- Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.15 pounds
- Page Count: 64
- Reading Level: Ages 18-22
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