Memoirs of a Polar Bear Picture Book told with the deft hand

told with the deft hand of Japan’s most celebrated cartoonist

and who she’s allowed to talk to

In an Eden-like future

The Wizard of Oz

your lease just ran out

Memoirs of a Polar Bear Picture Book told with the deft handYoko Tawada Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performerswho happen to be polar bears. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary world. In chapter one, the grandmother matriarch in the Soviet Union accidentally writes a bestselling autobiography.