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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 53 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Christa Lewis, Paul Woodson. |
| Summary |
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 son-the last of their line-is 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." |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Polar bear -- Fiction.
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Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
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Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
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Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Allegorical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Bernofsky, Susan, translator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781541420236 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1541420233 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11851411 |
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