Günter Grass
1) Crabwalk
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The author of the Tin Drum takes on the worst maritime disaster in history, the sinking of a German cruise ship packed with refugees by a Soviet sub, a disaster that killed nine thousand people. Gunter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for decades now, but no book since The Tin Drum has generated as much excitement as this engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. A German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, it was attacked...
2) Tin drum
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1962
Physical Desc
591 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II , The Tin Drum is the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Willfully stunting his growth at three feet for many years, wielding his tin drum and piercing scream as anarchistic weapons, he provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 658 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature tells the story of two old men in Berlin- one a former East German cultural functionary, the other a former mid-level spy- observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. Grass weaves a deeply human story laced with pain and humor in equal measure.
4) The rat
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A major new work from Germany's greatest modern writer, this wildly imaginative yet superbly told novel revives some of Grass's most famous characters from his novels The Tin Drum, Headbirths, and The Flounder, as it tells the story of a female rat who engages the narrator in a series of dialogues convincingly demonstrating that the rats will inherit a devastated earth.
6) Alabardas
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Primera edició́n,
Physical Desc
149 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Months before his death, José Saramago felt once again the vital impulse from fiction to reflect on one of its major concerns: violence against persons and societies, which makes them victims and prevents them from owning their absolute lives. The result of this impulse is Halberds, halberds, muskets, shotguns, an exciting footprint inexhaustible fighting spirit of José Saramago and his last narrative will. The unfinished story has a moral conflict...