{"product_id":"memoirs-of-a-polar-bear-081122578x","title":"Memoirs of a Polar Bear","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 081122578X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tawada, Yoko\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers-who happen to be polar bearsThe Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as Yoko Tawadas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51974688309536,"sku":"NEW081122578X","price":15.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/memoirs-of-a-polar-bear-081122578x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}