The Flounder

It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness. 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: Grass, Gunter Grass, Günter Grass
• Assisted by: Ralph Manheim (Translation)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1989
• EAN: 9780156319355
• ISBN: 978-0-15-631935-5
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 898 g
• Series: Helen & Kurt Wolff Book; Helen & Kurt Wolff Book
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature