From the Diary of a Snail

Informationen zum Autor Günter Grass (1927–2015) was Germany’s most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass’s first novel, The Tin Drum , is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. Klappentext G¿nter Grass (1927¿2015) was Germany¿s most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass¿s first novel, The Tin Drum , is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. Zusammenfassung Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with Willie Brandt.

Product details

• Authors: Gunter Grass, Günter Grass
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.01.1997
• EAN: 9780749394554
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-9455-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Satirical fiction and parodies, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, nobel prize; the tin drum