KEY POINTS- * The final part of Grass's famous Danzig Trilogy (the first two books are The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse). * A core stock backlist item. Grass joins other Minerva twentieth century classic writers (Calvino, Mann, Kafka). * Minerva are rejacketing and repackaging Grass for the backlist - a very strong and attractive generic cover design. * A new book by Grass will be published in October 1997. * The re-issuing of this classic work of the twentieth century literature will attract new readers to Grass's work.
Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass's first novel, The Tin Drum, is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
Grass is one of the few great writers in Europe today
*Sunday Telegraph*
Günter Grass releases, against the grain of history, a troop of
obsessional characters, armed often with magical or at least
disconcerting powers, who gnaw through the madness of the Third
Reich and the chaos of the collapse, into the complacent fabric of
modern West Germany
*New Statesman*
Forty years of twentieth-century German history observed through a
massive fable about men and dogs. Mad, Gothic, repetitive and
bitterly funny
*Sunday Times*
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