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.
 

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Grass, Gunter Grass, Günter Grass
• Assisted by: Ralph Manheim (Translation)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.1989
• EAN: 9780156319355
• ISBN: 978-0-15-631935-5
• No. of pages: 560
• Weight: 640 g
• Series: Helen & Kurt Wolff Book; Helen & Kurt Wolff Book
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Historical romance, Short Stories, Thriller / suspense fiction, Sea stories, Magical Realism, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Romance / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Sea Stories, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales