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Summary: Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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Summary: A bilingual poetry collection. In Nursery Rhyme, he writes: "Who laughs here, who has laughed? / Here we have ceased to laugh. / To laugh here is now treason / The laugher has a reason."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 GRAGrass, Günter
Contents: Ausgefragt / Questioned -- Zwischen Greise gestellt / Placed amid old men -- Ehe / Marriage -- Advent / Advent -- Plötzliche Angst / Sudden fright -- König Lear / King Lear -- Vom Rest unterm Nagel / Of the residue under our nails -- Offenes Feuer / Open fire -- Schlaflos / Sleepless -- Liebe / Love -- Dreht euch nicht um / Don't turn round -- Platzangst / Claustrophobia -- Hymne / Hymn --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace & World 1968
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAGrass, Günter
Summary: The final work of the Nobel Prize winner Gunter Grass--a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, the world In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, suddenly everything seems possible again: love letters, soliloquies, scenes of jealousy, swan songs, social satire, and moments of happiness crowd onto the page. Only an aging artist who has once more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016