Yoko Tawada

Broschiertes Buch

Memoirs of a Polar Bear

Beschreibung

A story of three polar bears: a memoirist who flees the Soviet Union; a dancer in an East Berlin circus; and Knut, a baby bear born in Berlin Zoo at the beginning of the 21st Century

Autor

Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German, and has published several books-stories, novels, poems, plays, essays-in both languages. She has received numerous awards for her writing including the Akutagawa Prize, the Kleist-Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, and the Goethe Medal. New Directions publishes her story collections Where Europe Begins (with a Preface by Wim Wenders) and Facing the Bridge, and her novel of Catherine Deneuve obsession, The Naked Eye.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Granta Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 190g
• ISBN-13: 9781846276323
• ISBN-10: 1846276322
• Artikelnr.: 48932644