The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada's most famous story.
Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as, ``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 dog-like man.
They develop a very sexual, romantic courtship with many allegorical overtones -- much to the chagrin of her friends.
New Directions Publishing Corporation The bridegroom was a dog, paperback/yoko tawada
