Synopsis
It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Review
"A masterpiece by one of the most gifted and original of contemporary writers. It is a book that will repay study and rereading. Only a churlish, insular reader could fail to respond to its bold and exhilarating historical sweep, its poetic celebration of food and the arts of cooking" (New Statesman)
"Grass spices his potent brew with a juicy concoction of tales and anecdotes, and a rich, Rabelaisian humour" (Daily Telegraph)
"I know of no one else capable of writing anything like it" (Sunday Times)
"Grass is one of the few great writers in Europe today" (Sunday Telegraph)
Book Description
Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass takes as his theme the relationships between food, women and war as he re-imagines the fairy tale of The Fisherman and His Wife.
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Flounder
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Fawcett (edition ), 1983
ISBN 10: 0449203492
ISBN 13: 9780449203491
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. About very good. Light soiling and rubbing shelf wear. Signs of reading. One small thumbed tear outside top of front wrap. Wraps are primarily bright. A tight binding. Internally a blind stamp inside front cover. Toned pages are otherwise unmarked. A copy in excellent reading condition. Seller Inventory # 4928
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Read more about : Pomorshian fisherwoman, Kashubia, Zuckau, Three Pigs' Head, petit-bourgeois liberalism, nuns & whores, Royal Prussian State Farm, and Wicker Bastion. The jacket blurb for these 541 pages calls it a `tangy stew of history, legend, myth, religion and ._._.' . They also note : irony. UNillustrated. Cond : Paper wrapper is silver coloured with purple lettering. Cover graphic is a flounder and a human ear. Tight in binding. Small spine cock. No names. Minimal soiling. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p.185) : " High-school girls with their books can be seen plodding down the street among bundles of rags the same age as themselves, forming islands in the traffic, then merging again with the great, flowing mass. wherever the ._._._. ." Size: 12mo. Seller Inventory # 013005
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