Cat and Mouse - Couverture souple

Grass, Günter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0749394803 ISBN 13 : 9780749394806

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 1997

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

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.

Revue de presse :

"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 Laski)

"Grass is one of the few great writers in Europe today" (Sunday Telegraph)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0749394803
• ISBN 13: 9780749394806
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192