The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada’s most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as, “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 dog-like man. They develop a very sexual, romantic courtship with many allegorical overtones — much to the chagrin of her friends.
Author: Yoko Tawada
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/27/2012
Series: New Directions Pearls #0
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780811220378
Language: English
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