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Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
37.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Gunter Grass's painful, moving new novel is based on the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the worst human tragedy in maritime history. In January 1945, the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German refugee ship, was sunk with the loss of 9,000 lives. Grass's narrator, Paul, is one of the few survivors, a middle-aged j ...Show more
Crabwalk by Gunter Grass (tr Krishna Winston)
27.00 NZD
29.95 (9% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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From Germany to Germany: Diary 1990 by Gunter Grass
39.99 NZD
Category: History
In 1990, Gunter Grass - a reluctant diarist - felt compelled to make a record of the interesting times through which he was living. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the collapse of Communism, Germany and Europe were enduring a period of immense upheaval. Grass resolved to immer ...Show more
Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass
64.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
"Peeling the Onion" is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece, "The Tin Drum", in Paris. Grass' parents ran a corner shop, but his mother, whom he adored, encouraged him t ...Show more
Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
"Peeling the Onion" is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece, "The Tin Drum", in Paris. Grass' parents ran a corner shop, but his mother, whom he adored, encouraged him t ...Show more
The Box - Tales from the Darkroom by Gunter Grass
49.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Once upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old, called together his sons and daughters - four, five, six, eight in number - and finally convinced them, after long hesitation, to do as he wished. Now they are sitting around a table and begin to talk'. In this delightful sequel to "Pee ...Show more
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
29.95 NZD
34.95 (14% off)
Category: Fiction
The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Gunther Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers 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 fantastica ...Show more
Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass
79.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Although this novel (published four years before Grass won the Nobel Prize) ranges from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the following year\'s unification of Germany, the author\'s basic obsession is - through cryptic references and allusions - with the past two centuries of German history.
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