false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172279276m/159455.jpg 159455 2 In these three narratives, an ingenious story-teller has created a new kind of fantasy, playful yet vaguely sinister, laced with her own brand of humor, which reviewers have labeled variously as "funky," "mischievous," "weird," and "hilarious." <br><br>The author was in her early thirties when the title story won her country's highest literary award. In The Bridegroom Was a Dog, an offbeat cram school teacher tells her pupils a story about a little princess whose hand in marriage is promised to a dog as a reward for licking her bottom clean; only<br>to have her own life turned upside down by the sudden appearance of a dog-like man with a predilection for the same part of her anatomy. When rumor-mongering housewives try to force them into a more respectable relationship, both escape into new relationships of their own...<br><br>With its publication here, alongside two other equally offbeat but plausible fantasies, readers in the West can now discover for themselves a writer whose inventions are as strange and exhilarating as the best of dreams. 153905 1998 The Bridegroom Was a Dog total:39|5:6|4:12|3:11|2:4|1:6| 39 125 60 11 4 0 false false Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 10:38:52 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 15:49:17 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Apr 03 00:38:09 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 00:45:33 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 02 22:25:39 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 19 22:57:42 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 26 23:11:23 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 16 20:27:38 -0700 2009 The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Tawada Yoko is a small collection of contemplative works, which are little more than fragments of strange people, places, events and dreams. Described as kafkaesque, they are disquieting.

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