The memoirs of a polar bear
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First edition.
"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 author like no other. 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, enjoyingboth celebrity and "the intimacy of being alone with my pen.""--
Available copies
- 7 of 7 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
0 current holds with 7 total copies.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
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| Briarcliff Manor Public Library | FICTION TAWADA (Text) Fiction |
31036150790852 |
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| Irvington Public Library | FIC TAWADA, Y (Text) Fiction |
31012154304701 |
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| New Rochelle Public Library | TAWADA (Text) Fiction |
31019156205158 |
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| Scarsdale Public Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31029153825585 |
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| Town of Pelham Public Library | TAWADA (Text) Fiction |
31023151159451 |
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| Warner Library | FICTION TAWADA (Text) Fiction |
31033151837261 |
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| White Plains Public Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31544200692432 |
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