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The Call of the Toad

English · Paperback / Softback

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A German art historian and a Polish art restorer find adventure and love in the cemetery business. Their vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book


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GÜNTER GRASS (1927–2015), Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer, attained worldwide renown with the publication of his novel The Tin Drum in 1959. A man of remarkable versatility, Grass was a poet, playwright, social critic, graphic artist, and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999.
 

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A German art historian and a Polish art restorer find adventure and love in the cemetery business. Their vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Product details

Authors Gunter Grass, Günter Grass
Assisted by Ralph Manheim (Translation)
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 18.11.1993
 
EAN 9780156153409
ISBN 978-0-15-615340-9
No. of pages 256
Series Harvest Book
Harvest Book
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: Satire, FICTION: Friendship, FICTION: Humorous / Black Humor, FICTION: World Literature / Germany / 20th Century

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