Memoirs of a polar bear
Record details
- ISBN: 0811225798
- ISBN: 9780811225793
- ISBN: 081122578X
- ISBN: 9780811225786
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Physical Description:
252 pages ; 21 cm
print - Publisher: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translated from the German. "A New Directions paperbook original." |
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Genre: | Allegories. Allegorical fiction. Fiction. Allegorical fiction. Allegories. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Homer Library.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Homer Public Library. (Show preferred library)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | F TAWADA (Text) | 000138597 | Fiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Born in Tokyo in 1960,Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German: she has received the Akutagawa, Kleist, Lessing, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso, and Tanizaki prizes, as well as the Goethe Medal. Her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award. Rivka Galchen in the New York Times Magazine hailed her work as magnificently strange." For New Directions,Susan Bernofsky has translated Yoko Tawada's Where Europe Begins, The Naked Eye, and Memoirs of a Polar Bear (winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation), eight titles by the great Swiss-German modernist Robert Walser, and five books by Jenny Erpenbeck, including The End of Days (winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize). She is the author of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser, and teaches at Columbia University, where she also directs the literary translation program."