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Gunter Grass
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…
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Gunter Grass, says The Times, ‘is on his own as an artist’, and indeed this extraordinary, provoking and joyously Rabelaisian celebration of life, food and sex is unique. Lifted from…
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To compensate for his unusually large Adam’s apple - source of both comfort and stress - 14-year-old Mahlke turns himself into an athlete and ace driver. Soon he is known…
‘For Grass, Germany’s relationship with its history is an incurable disease. He provides a mastery and poignant diagnosis.’ - The Times (UK)
Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass’ modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The…
One of the greatest modern novels, The Tin Drum is the story of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who provides a profound yet…
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from…
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Hitler’s rise and fall is seen through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator whose magic powers are symbolic of the grave forces dominating the German troops of that period. Grass…
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