{"product_id":"memoirs-of-a-polar-bear","title":"Memoirs of a Polar Bear","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMemoirs of a Polar Bear\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eYoko Tawada\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811225786\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2016\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Memoirs of a Polar Bear\u003c\/em\u003e has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e as \"Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness\"--Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both 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...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHappy or sad, each bear writes a story, enjoying both celebrity and \"the intimacy of being alone with my pen.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Memoirs of a Polar Bear | Yoko Tawada | Book | 9780811225786 | New | Fiction 1405621","offer_id":50561095827714,"sku":"1405621","price":30.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/41RZhPqSw6S.jpg?v=1790705290","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/memoirs-of-a-polar-bear","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}