{"product_id":"memoirs-of-a-polar-bear-paperback-3","title":"Memoirs of a Polar Bear - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYoko Tawada\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSusan Bernofsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\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            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47459763618013,"sku":"9780811225786","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/V2t5MmYwVDlkZUtVS3ZON0hGTXVLdz09_dd5ce600-cf34-4fc7-b1da-f1894dcea172.webp?v=1771622336","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/memoirs-of-a-polar-bear-paperback-3","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}