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The Bridegroom Was a Dog

By (author) Yoko Tawada, Translated by Margaret Mitsutani

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Masterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a disarming and unforgettable modern classic. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, which praised it as a “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 doglike man. A romantic — and sexual — courtship develops, much to the chagrin of her friends, who have suspicions about the man’s identity.

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Normally shipped | Forthcoming
Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published date | 4 Nov 2025
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 80
Dimensions | 203 x 127 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-8112-3996-7
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BISAC | fiction / literary
Expected | 4 Nov 2025

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