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Grass is a 1989 science fiction novel by Sheri S. Tepper and the first novel of the Arbai trilogy. Styled as an ecological mystery, Grass presents one of Tepper's earliest and perhaps most radical statements on themes that would come to dominate her fiction, in which despoliation of the planet is explicitly linked to gender and social inequalities.
The Danzig Trilogy (German: Danziger Trilogie) is series of novels and novellas by German author Günter Grass. The trilogy focuses on the interwar and wartime period in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). The three books in the trilogy are: The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), published in 1959; Cat and Mouse (Katz und Maus), published ...
The anthropomorphism and metaphorical embodiment of gross social forces is common in Grass's work; here the sentence "It was a young cat, but no kitten" describes the German state in the 1940s — young but by no means innocent (p. 5). The narrative style — the evasion, self-justification, and eventual, chatty disclosure of the truth — is ...
Cats have three types of fur on their bodies, and the ratio and length of these types varies with the breed of cat and the type of hair of each individual. The first type of fur that every cat has ...
Peeling the Onion (German: Beim Häuten der Zwiebel) is a 2006 autobiographical work by German Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright Günter Grass. [1] [2] [3] It begins with the end of his childhood in Danzig (Gdansk) when the Second World War breaks out, and ends with the author finishing his first great literary success, The Tin Drum.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Novels by Günter Grass" ... The Box (Grass book) C. The Call of the Toad; Cat and Mouse ...
The award-winning author of 'Fear of Flying' on Jenny Offill, 'Leaves of Grass,' and the Book That Everyone Should Read.
Walter Matern and Eduard Amsel are friends. [2] Eduard is half Jewish [3] and at the young age of five is a genius at making scarecrows. [2] The narrator in Book One, the mine owner Brauxel, [3] tells of the friendship of Walter and Eduard when they are children in the Vistula estuary, which is a German-Polish borderland (the interwar Free City of Danzig) peopled by Mennonites, Catholics and ...