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First Edition Hardcover (1992) in Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket shows light edge-wear but nothing major. Price on the inside Dust Jacket has not been clipped. Text is clean and unmarked with no rips, tears, creases, or loose pages. Spine is firm. A nice clean copy. Gunter Grass's Classic poignant, irreverent, funny novel about two people who find love and business. The couple, a German & a Pole have a vision for a business, he will provide not only bodies but the cash and know-how, she will provide the human warmth and political fervor. A tale of capitalism taken to absurd extremes, a very original and entertaining novel. Prompt shipping with a Free Delivery Confirmation.
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The author of The Tin Drum is back in Danzig with The Call of the Toad, a poignant, irreverent, funny novel about two people who find adventure in love and business. The love is late middle-aged; the business is the cemetery business. The couple's vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. He, the German, will provide not only the bodies but cash and know-how; she, the Pole, will provide the human warmth and political fervor. Gunter Grass tells a tale of capitalism taken to absurd extremes as he skewers both the German and the Polish characters, past, present, and future - with the style, tenderness, and baroque inventiveness that have made him famous.
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Gunter 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.
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- PublisherHBJ.
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0436200643
- ISBN 13 9780436200649
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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