The Bridegroom Was a Dog

A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo Mitsuko a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she tells the children the fable of a princess whose hand in marriage is promised to a dog she is intimate with. And when a young man with sharp canine teeth turns up at the schoolteacher's ho...See More