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Author: Tawada, Yoko; Mitsutani, Margaret [Translator]
ISBN: 9784770029409

by Yoko Tawada; Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)

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First line

The mid-afternoon sunlight stuck, pure white, to the vertical and horizontal washing on the lines as an old man, walking through a large apartment complex in the airless, clammy heat, suddenly stopped in the middle of the road to look back over his shoulder and froze that way, and a brick-red car ground to a halt beside a mailbox as if its strength had petered out, though no one got out into the stillness of a July day at two o' clock, silent except for a distant drone that might have been either a dying mosquito or the hum of a machine in a school-lunch factory.

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Title The Bridegroom Was a Dog
Author Yoko Tawada; Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)
Binding Paperback
Pages 165
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Kodansha, -
Date July 31, 2003
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9784770029409 / 4770029403
Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
Dimensions 5 x 7.1 x 0.5 in (12.70 x 18.03 x 1.27 cm)
Dewey Decimal Code 895.635

About the author

YOKO TAWADA was born in Tokyo in 1960 and educated at Waseda University, and now lives in Germany. She made her debut as a writer with "Missing Heels," which was awarded the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 1991. In 1993 she received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize-Japan's equivalent of a Booker or a Pulitzer-for "The Bridegroom Was a Dog." And in 1996 she won the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, a German award to foreign writers recognized for their contribution to German culture. She has also been given the Prize in Literature from the City of Hamburg (1990) and the Lessing Prize (1994).

Her fiction and poetry have been featured in journals and anthologies in France, Holland, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, but the present collection is the first to appear in English. This has since been followed by Where Europe Begins (New Directions, 2002).

The Translator: MARGARET MITSUTANI has a Master's degree in Comparative Literature from Tokyo University and now teaches at Kyoritsu Women's University in Tokyo. Her previous translations include Kenzaburo Oe's novel An Echo of Heaven and several short stories by Kyoko Hayashi.