The Call of the Toad: A New York Times Notable Literary Love Story Bridging German and Polish History (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Grass, Gunter

 
9780156153409: The Call of the Toad: A New York Times Notable Literary Love Story Bridging German and Polish History (Harvest Book)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0156153408 ISBN 13: 9780156153409
Verlag: Harvest Books, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

A German art historian and a Polish art restorer find adventure and love in the cemetery business. Their vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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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.
 

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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 business is the cemetery business. The couple's vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. He, the German, will provide not only the bodies but cash and know-how; she, the Pole, will provide the human warmth and political fervor. Gunter Grass tells a tale of capitalism taken to absurd extremes as he skewers both the German and the Polish characters, past, present, and future - with the style, tenderness, and baroque inventiveness that have made him famous.

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Verlag
Harvest Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0156153408
ISBN 13 
9780156153409
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
262
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