The bridegroom was a dog
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The bridegroom was a dog
（A New Directions pearl, NDP 1244）
New Directions, c2012
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Inu mukoiri
犬婿入り
Inumukoiri
Available at 12 libraries
Note
Originally published by Kodansha
Other title from t.p. verso
"A New Directions Pearl."
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Description
The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada's most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as, "fast-moving, mysteriously compelling tale that has the dream quality of Kafka."
The Bridegroom Was a Dog 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 dog-like man. They develop a very sexual, romantic courtship with many allegorical overtones - much to the chagrin of her friends.
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