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The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
- The Bridegroom Was a Dog
- Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
- Page: 80
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9780811239967
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Overview
A bizarre tale of passion and romance between a schoolteacher and a dog, from the incomparable National Book Award-winning Yoko Tawada Masterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a disarming and unforgettable modern classic. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, which praised it as a “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 doglike man. A romantic — and sexual — courtship develops, much to the chagrin of her friends, who have suspicions about the man’s identity.