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The Danzig Trilogy: The Tin Drum / Cat and Mouse / Dog Years
The Danzig Trilogy The Tin Drum / Cat and Mouse / Dog Years Author:Gunter Grass, Ralph Manheim (Translator) The Tin Drum — A scathing dissection of the years from 1925 to 1955 through the eyes of Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his retarded childhood fantastically counterpoints the accumulating horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis. — Cat and Mouse — To compensate for his unusually la... more »rge Adam's apple - source of both comfort and stress - 14-year-old Mahlke turns himself into an athlete and ace driver. Soon he is known to the nation as "The Great Mahlke" but remains a target to his enemies. He is different, and doomed.
Dog Years
Set in three parts, this novel moves from the 1920s to the 1950s, following the lives of Eduard Amsel, his blood brother Walter Matern, and Prinz, the black shepherd who is also the Führer's favorite dog. Amsel builds lifelike, mechanically marching SA men, Matern practices a strange revenge on Nazi criminals, and Prinz deserts his master because even a dog can have enough. Exhibiting all the brilliance, inventiveness and narrative daring that Grass is famous for, this is a splendid evocation of an apocalyptic period and its startling aftermath.« less
ISBN-13: 9781567310986 ISBN-10: 1567310982 Publication Date: 1987 Pages:1,030 Edition:1st U.S. Ed Rating: