‘This book is a genuine tour de force’ - New York Times Book Review

‘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 YorkerFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum comes a satire of european politics and a love story.