Cat and Mouse - Couverture rigide

Grass, Gunter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151161003 ISBN 13 : 9780151161003

Editeur : Harcourt Childrens Books, 1963

Synopsis

A Novel. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover.Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 doomed in a country scarred by the war.

Cat and Mouse was first published in 1961, two years after Gunter Grass' controversial and applauded masterpiece, The Tin Drum. Once again Grass turns his attention on Danzig. With a subtle blend of humour and power, Cat and Mouse ostensibly relates the rise of Mahlke from clown to hero. But Mahlke's outlandish antics hide the darkness at the heart of a nation torn by Nazi violence, the war and its aftermath.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harcourt Childrens Books
• Date d'édition: 1963
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0151161003
• ISBN 13: 9780151161003
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 189
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible