Summary
Cat and Mouse: A Danzig Story of War, Heroism, and Otherness
A powerful story set in war-torn Danzig about a teenager’s rise from clown to hero by Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass.
To compensate for his unusually large Adam’s apple - source of both discomfort and distress - fourteen year old Joachim Mahlke turns himself into athlete and ace diver. Soon he is known to his peers and his nation as ‘The Great Mahlke’. But to his enemies, he remains a target. He is different and d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780749394806 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0749394803 |
| Author: | Günter Grass |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 1997 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 12mm |
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Grass is one of the few great writers in Europe today
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 LaskiGrass is one of the few great writers in Europe today * Sunday Telegraph *
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Günter Grass
Günter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany’s most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility - novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass’s first novel, The Tin Drum, is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
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