The Flounder

Günter Grass

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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

Book Details

Publisher: Harpervia
Publish Date: May 5th, 1989
Pages: 560
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.14in - 5.96in - 1.40in - 1.78lb
EAN: 9780156319355
Categories: • Literary• Magical Realism• Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

About the Author

Grass, Gunter: - GUNTER 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.

Grass, Günter: - 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.

Praise for this book

"One of the most exuberantly inventive works in recent European fiction." -The New York Times Book Review

"Flavored with dill, stuffed with prunes, and awash with beer, The Flounder is a kind of Germanic One Hundred Years of Solitude, a Baltic Ulysses (at least in scale) and fantastic in any language." -The Washington Post Book World
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