{"product_id":"the-bridegroom-was-a-dog-9780811239967","title":"The Bridegroom Was a Dog","description":"\u003cp\u003eMasterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, \u003cem\u003eThe Bridegroom Was a Dog i\u003c\/em\u003es a disarming and unforgettable modern classic. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, which praised it as a \"fast-moving, mysteriously compelling tale that has the dream quality of Kafka.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Bridegroom Was a Dog\u003c\/em\u003e 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 doglike man. A romantic -- and sexual -- courtship develops, much to the chagrin of her friends, who have suspicions about the man's identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMitsutani, Margaret:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Mitsutani\u003c\/strong\u003e has lived in Japan since the mid-1970s and was a finalist for the National Book Award for her translation of Yoko Tawada's \u003cem\u003eScattered All Over the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e and winner of the National Book Award for her translation of Tawada's \u003cem\u003eThe Emissary\u003c\/em\u003e. She also translates Japan's 1994 Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburo Oe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTawada, Yoko:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eYoko Tawada\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German, and has published several books--stories, novels, poems, plays, essays--in both languages. She has received numerous awards for her writing including the Akutagawa Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Goethe Medal, and the National Book Award. New Directions publishes her story collections \u003cem\u003eWhere Europe Begins\u003c\/em\u003e (with a Preface by Wim Wenders) and \u003cem\u003eFacing the Bridge\u003c\/em\u003e, as well her novels \u003cem\u003eThe Naked Eye\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Bridegroom Was a Dog\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMemoirs of a Polar Bear\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Emissary, Scattered All over the Earth, Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel, Suggested in the Stars\u003c\/em\u003e, and forthcoming in autumn 2025 is \u003cem\u003eArchipelago of the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e, the final novel in her \u003cem\u003eScattered trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51690786914578,"sku":"9780811239967","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_54faea28-5162-4de2-9431-69d197dc6580.jpg?v=1761747823","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bridegroom-was-a-dog-9780811239967","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}