num_pages: 252
description: 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. In chapter two Tosca her daughter (born in Canada where her mother had emigrated) moves to the DDR and takes a job in the circus. Her sonthe last of their lineis Knut born in chapter three in a Leipzig zoo but raised by a human keeper in relatively happy circumstances in the Berlin zoo until his keeper Matthias is taken away...Happy or sad each bear writes a story enjoying both celebrity and the intimacy of being alone with my pen.
language: English
title: Memoirs of a Polar Bear
publisher: New Directions