The Call of the Toad

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 The satire is sharp! the analysis precise! and Grass is still expert in drawing out the painful comedy of human behaviour and the pitfalls that await good intentions' - The New Yorker From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum comes a satire of european politics and a love story. Zusammenfassung 'Gdansk 1989. A polish woman, a guilding specialist, meets a German man, a professor in art history. A walk together in a graveyard gives rise to an ambition to establish a Cemetery of Reconciliation as a mark of the times and their spirit of unity... The satire is sharp, the analysis precise, and Grass is still expert in drawing out the painful comedy of human behaviour and the pitfalls that await good intentions' - The New Yorker From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum comes a satire of european politics and a love story.

Product details

• Authors: Gunter Grass, Günter Grass
• Assisted by: Ralph Manheim (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.09.1993
• EAN: 9780749398781
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-9878-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; 20th Century, Poland, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Satirical fiction and parodies