“gunter grass”

'Funny, macabre, disgusting, blasphemous, pathetic, horrifying, erotic, it is an endless delirium, an outrageous phantasmagoria in which dust from Goethe, Hans Andersen, Swift, Rabelais, Joyce, Aristophanes and Rochester dances on the point of a needle in The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 laun... More

SALES POINTS: * Gunter Grass is postwar Germany's most celebrated and acclaimed novelist, and a writer who enjoys a pivotal role on the international literary stage. * Beautiful repackage of a classic backlist title. THE BOOK: To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple- source of both comfor... More

`With The Call of the Toad, Grass brings the fable landscape of the Europe of his lifetime up to date. At once a satire on post-1989 politics and a love story, it shows two sides of the author: firebrand and mellowed, humane observer... Among contemporaries, only the novelist Garcia Marquez equals h... More

Novemberland is a bilingual volume of selected poems from the past four decades by Germany's preeminent contemporary writer. Before Guenter Grass's first novel, The Tin Drum, received international acclaim as one of the most important postwar novels ever written, Grass was renowned in his native cou... More

Harm and Dorte Peters, the quintessential couple, are on vacation in Asia. But wherever they are, they can't get away from the political upheaval back home. With irony and wit, Grass takes aim at capitalism, communism, religion-even reproduction; nothing escapes unscathed. Translated by Ralph Manhei... More