Memoirs of a Polar Bear Picture Book lies upstairs in the White

lies upstairs in the White House

In an Eden-like future

a famous Hollywood actor dies onstage during a production of King Lear

playful and philosophical

Memoirs of a Polar Bear Picture Book lies upstairs in the WhiteYoko 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.