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Two old men roam through Berlin stopping to eat hamburgers at
Macdonald's, observing life in the former German Democratic
Republic after the fall of the wall in 1989: Theo Wuttke, former
East German cultural functionary and Ludwig Hoftaller - Wuttke's
shadow - a mid-level spy who can serve the Gestapo or the Stasi
with equal dedication. Grass writes with the wit, fantasy, literary
erudition and political acerbity for which he is celebrated. This
novel will stand as perhaps the most complex and challenging
exploration of what Germany's reunification will eventually come to
mean.
THE TIN DRUM presents Hitler's rise and fall through the eyes of
the dwarfish narrator whose magic powers become symbolic of the
dark forces dominating the German nation in the period. Like Thomas
Mann's DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Grass's novel explores the dark roots of
power and creativity. An early advocate of 'magic realism'. Gunter
Grass is the most powerful and celebrated novelist to appear in
post-war Germany. His home city of Danzig is a powerful presence in
this novel.
A collection of one hundred inter-linked stories celebrating the
twentieth century, by Germany's most eminent contemporary writer.
As the sequence of stories unfolds, a lively and rich picture
emerges, an historical portrait of our century in all its grandeur
and in all its horror.
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Of All That Ends (Paperback)
Gunter Grass; Translated by Breon Mitchell
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The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Gunter Grass - a witty
and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the
world. Suddenly, in spite of the trials of old age, and with the
end in sight, everything seems possible again: love letters,
soliloquies, scenes of jealousy, swan songs, social satire, and
moments of happiness. Only an ageing artist who had once more
cheated death could get to work with such wisdom, defiance and wit.
A wealth of touching stories is condensed into artful miniatures.
In a striking interplay of poetry, lyric prose and drawings, Grass
creates his final, major work of art. A moving farewell gift, a
sensual, melancholy summation of a life fully lived.
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Crabwalk (Paperback, Main)
Gunter Grass; Translated by Krishna Winston
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In this new novel Gunter Grass examines a subject that has long
been taboo - the sufferings of the Germans during the Second World
War. He explores the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the deadliest
maritime disaster of all time, and the repercussions upon three
generations of a German family.
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Crabwalk (Paperback)
Gunter Grass
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Gunter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for decades
now, but no book since "The Tin Drum" has generated as much
excitement as this engrossing account of the sinking of the
"Wilhelm Gustloff." A German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, it
was attacked by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. Some 9,000
people went down in the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest
maritime disaster of all time.
Born to an unwed mother on a lifeboat the night of the attack, Paul
Pokriefke is a middle-aged journalist trying to piece together the
tragic events. While his mother sees her whole existence in terms
of that calamitous moment, Paul wishes their life could have been
less touched by the past. For his teenage son, who dabbles in the
dark, far-right corners of the Internet, the "Gustloff" embodies
the denial of Germany's wartime suffering.
"Scuttling backward to move forward," "Crabwalk" is at once a
captivating tale of a tragedy at sea and a fearless examination of
the ways different generations of Germans now view their past.
Winner of the Nobel Prize
Gunter Grass's international fame as a novelist has tended to
obscure his achievements in poetry, but his first book was a
collection of poems and he has returned faithfully to the medium
throughout his writing life. All his preoccupations - social,
sexual, moral, gastronomical - are found there, as is the unique
mixture of expressionistic grotesquerie and political outspokenness
that has characterised his fiction. It is this mixture, as Michael
Hamburger, Grass's most constant and sympathetic translator, points
out, that has allowed him to act as court jester to the post-war
German democratic state, 'telling disagreeable truths'. Selected
Poems 1956-1993 encapsulates one of the defining poetic oeuvres of
our time.
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The Tin Drum (Paperback)
Gunter Grass; Translated by Breon Mitchell
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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR On his third birthday Oskar
decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and
wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his
extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his
anarchic adventures is post-war Germany.
Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest
upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the
Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in
Paris. It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, one
of Gunter Grass' finest works. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of
The Tin Drum.
'Once upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old,
called together his sons and daughters - four, five, six, eight in
number - and finally convinced them, after long hesitation, to do
as he wished. Now they are sitting around a table and begin to
talk...' In this delightful sequel to Peeling the Onion, Gunter
Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record
memories of their childhoods, of growing up, of their father, who
was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their
lives. Memories contradictory, critical, loving, accusatory - they
piece together an intimate picture of this most public of men. To
say nothing of Marie, Grass's assistant, a family friend of many
years, perhaps even a lover, whose snapshots taken with an
old-fashioned Agfa box camera provide the author with ideas for his
work. But her images offer much more. They reveal a truth beyond
the ordinary detail of life, depict the future, tell what might
have been, grant the wishes in visual form of those photographed.
The children speculate on the nature of this magic: was the
enchanted camera a source of inspiration for their father? Did it
represent the power of art itself? Was it the eye of God? The Box
is an inspired and daring work of fiction. In its candour, wit, and
earthiness, it is Grass at his very best.
In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter
Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped
two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when "The Tin
Drum "was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered
for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two
years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS.
Taken prisoner by American forces as he was recovering from
shrapnel wounds, he spent the final weeks of the war in an American
POW camp. After the war, Grass resolved to become an artist and
moved with his first wife to Paris, where he began to write the
novel that would make him famous. Full of the bravado of youth, the
rubble of postwar Germany, the thrill of wild love affairs, and the
exhilaration of Paris in the early fifties, "Peeling the
Onion--"which caused great controversy when it was published in
Germany--reveals Grass at his most intimate.
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Century and The Tin Drum,
a novel of broad historical proportions set in Berlin during the
years of German reunification.
Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former German
Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. Theo
Wuttke, a former East German functionary, is a keen observer and a
gifted speaker. Ludwig Hoftaller is a mid-level spy whose loyalties
shift with each new regime. Together, both men see what the future
is bringing as they try to save what they can from the past and
understand the meaning of being German.
A complex and challenging exploration of what Germany's
reunification will mean-for Germans, for Europe, and for the
world-Too Far Afield is a masterwork from one of Europe's greatest
writers. Written with the wit, fantasy, literary erudition, and
political acerbity for which Grass is celebrated, it is a deeply
human story laced with pain and humor in equal measure.
In a work of great originality, Germany's most eminent writer
examines the victories and terrors of the twentieth century, a
period of astounding change for mankind. Great events and seemingly
trivial occurrences, technical developments and scientific
achievements, war and disasters, and new beginnings, all unfold to
display our century in its glory and grimness. A rich and lively
display of Grass's extraordinary imagination, the 100 interlinked
stories in this volume-one for each year from 1900 to 1999-present
a historical and social portrait for the millennium, a tale of our
times in all its grandeur and all its horror.
A group of leading intellectuals from all parts of Germany gather
in 1647 for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond
within a divided nation-its language and literature-as the Thirty
Years' War comes to an end. Afterword by Leonard Forster.
Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Novemberland is a bilingual volume of selected poems from the past
four decades by Germany's preeminent contemporary writer. Before
Guenter Grass's first novel, The Tin Drum, received international
acclaim as one of the most important postwar novels ever written,
Grass was renowned in his native country for his poetry. Informed
by the same baroque inventiveness and mordant wit that characterize
such celebrated prose works as The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog
Years, and The Flounder, these poems depict a landscape at once
recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal.
The author of The Tin Drum is back in Danzig with The Call of the Toad, a poignant, irreverent, funny novel about two people who find adventure in love and business. The love is late middle-aged; the business is the cemetery business. The couple's vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. He, the German, will provide not only the bodies but cash and know-how; she, the Pole, will provide the human warmth and political fervor. Gunter Grass tells a tale of capitalism taken to absurd extremes as he skewers both the German and the Polish characters, past, present, and future - with the style, tenderness, and baroque inventiveness that have made him famous.
As the Berlin Wall crumbled and the two Germanys became one, Grass
was one of a few who spoke out against reunification. In this
collection of speeches and debates on the factors destined to
reshape Europe, he is caustic, indignant, reflective, and
compelling. Translated by Krishna Winston with A. S. Wensinger. A
Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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