'Cat and Mouse' sticks pins into a wartime legend of Danzig. The Great Mahlke was billed for one of nature's tragic clowns: but he turned hero, and none of his schoolmates can quite laugh off the legend they helped to create.
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"Grass is one of the master fabulists of our age" (Michale Ratcliffe The Times)
"Grass is probably the nearest thing we have to a certain genius in living novelists" (Marghanita Laski)
"Grass is one of the few great writers in Europe today" (Sunday Telegraph)
A powerful story set in war-torn Danzig about a teenager’s rise from clown to hero by Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass.
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