The Bridegroom was a Dog.
de Yoko Tawada
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New York, NY Kodansha International , 1998. Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Paperback Edition: First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only minor indications of use: just a hint of wear to extremities; faint crease at the lower front panel. Binding shows barely discernible lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 165pp. Line Drawings by Ryuji Watanabe. Translated by Margaret Mitsutani. Winner of the Akutagawa Prize. ITrade Paperback. In these three stories, an ingenious Japanese writer has created a new kind of fantasy, playful yet vaguely sinister, laced with her own brand of humor: a blend of the earthiness of certain fairy tales and the absurdity of much of real life. In "The Bridegroom Was a Dog, " an offbeat cram school teacher tells her pupils a story about a little princess whose hand in marriage is promised to a dog as a reward for licking her bottom clean, only to have her own life turned upside down by the sudden appearance of a dog-like young man named Taro with a predilection for the same part of her anatomy. When rumor-mongering housewives try to force them into a more respectable relationship, both she and Taro escape into new relationships of their own. The heroine of "Missing Heels" is a mail-order bride who crosses an invisible border into a strange land where her husband's identity remains a mystery. Her encounters with people suspicious of her and intent on improving her, including a doctor who wants to reconstruct her feet, provide a wickedly funny view of an "advanced" society's attitude toward outsiders. The narrator of "The Gotthard Railway, " originally written in German, is a young woman who prefers the darkness of tunnels to the Italian sunshine that intellectuals like her German boyfriend long for. Her train ride through the bowels of St. Gotthard exposes us to new ways of seeing things - flags and maps, place names and the landscapes that give rise to them.
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- Librería
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 36792
- Título
- The Bridegroom was a Dog.
- Autor
- Yoko Tawada
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- 1
- Edición
- First Ed thus; First Printing indicated.
- Editorial
- Kodansha International ,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998.
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Asian Literature; Literature: World; Authors Q-Z; Japanese Literature; Fiction: Collectible Paperbacks;
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