The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed
in the New Yorker 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... Happy or sad, each
bear writes a story, enjoying both celebrity and "the intimacy of
being alone with my pen."
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