Tawada Yoko - Egy polar bear emlékiratai

A writer, a circus artist and an environmental activist. Grandmother, mother, son. Polar bears who live in human society are the beloved stars of the circus and the literary world. At conferences, the grandmother lectures on the importance of cycling to the national economy, while writing her memoirs. The book will be a bestseller in the Soviet Union, but he still defected. His daughter Tosca (who was already born in Canada) moves to the GDR and joins a circus there. When his son is born, his artistic ambitions are more important than his maternal feelings, so little Knut is raised in more or less happy circumstances by a caretaker, Mathias, at the Berlin Zoo.
The reader can look at the history of the second half of the 20th century from the point of view of the three polar bears, at the simultaneously heartbreaking and comical situations of thriving in a foreign culture. Yoko Tawada, who writes in both Japanese and German, reinterpreted the ancient genre of animal tales with a long tradition and created a dreamlike grotesque satire.