The Call of the Toad

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

About the author

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.
 

Product details

• Authors: Gunter Grass, Günter Grass
• Assisted by: Ralph Manheim (Translation)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1993
• EAN: 9780156153409
• ISBN: 978-0-15-615340-9
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 332 g
• Series: Harvest Book; Harvest Book
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature