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Memoirs of a polar bear / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.
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9781846276316 (paperback)
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Tawada, Yōko, 1960-
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Etüden im Schnee. English
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Memoirs of a polar bear / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.
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London : Portobello Books Ltd., 2017.
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252 pages ; 22 cm.
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The Memoirs of a Polar Bear is a novel that stars three generations of talented writers and performers who happen to be polar bears. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous, both as circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary world. In Chapter One, the grandmother matriarch in the Soviet Union accidentally writes a bestselling autobiography. In Chapter Two, Tosca, her daughter (born in Canada, where her mother had emigrated) moves to the DDR and takes a job in the circus. Her son--the last of their line--is Knut, born in Chapter Three in a Leipzig zoo, but raised by a human keeper in relatively happy circumstances in the Berlin zoo, until his keeper, Matthias, is taken away... Happy or sad, each bear writes a story, enjoying both celebrity and "the intimacy of being alone with my pen."
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Polar bear -- Fiction
Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
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Allegories
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Bernofsky, Susan
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Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
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Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
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Polar bear -- Fiction
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Fables
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