Günter Grass tells us a story for every year of our century. He writes of great events and seemingly trivial occurrences, of technical developments and scientific discoveries, of achievements in cultu...
The provocative story centers on the narrator's vivid recollection of a boyhood scene in which a black cat is provoked to pounce on his friend Mahlke's 'mouse'--his prominent Adam's apple. This incide...
In this important collection of speeches and debates, Grass opposes any union of the to Germanys into one state dominated by West Germany. He argues tht East Germany has a national character of its ow...
In this vast novel, packed with incident, Gunter Grass traces the dark labyrinth of the German mentality as it developed during the rise, fall, and aftermath of the Third Reich. 'The greatest living G...
The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke's 'mouse'-his prominent Adam's apple. This incident sets off a wild se...
The author of The Tin Drum is back in Danzig with The Call of the Toad, a poignant, irreverent, funny novel about two people who find adventure in love and business. The love is late middle-aged; the ...
Harry Dalton is a volcano expert who goes to the beautiful town of Dante's Peak in Washington State to investigate reports of some unusual activity underground. He soon realises something is terribly ...
From the Nobel laureate and author of The Tin Drum, a novel of broad historical dimensions set in Berlin during German reunification. Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former Germa...
In this superbly inventive, beautifully crafted novel, Gunter Grass relates, in dreamlike sequences, the end of this world and the beginning of an age of rats. Grass received her as a gift one Christm...
The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Günter Grass – a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world. Suddenly, in spite of the trials of old age, and with the ...
"Peeling the Onion" is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Grass' modestupbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians andconcludes with the writing of his masterpiece, "The T...