The Call of the Toad. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.

Grass, Günter.

ISBN 10: 0436200643 / ISBN 13: 9780436200649

Published by London, Secker & Warburg, 1992

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First English language edition. 23 cm. 248 pages. Illustrations in black and white, including photograph of author on back of dustjacket. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition first english langauge edition with only very minor signs of external wear. 'Gdansk 1989. A polish woman, a guilding specialist, meets a German man, a professor in art history. A walk together in a graveyard gives rise to an ambition to establish a Cemetery of Reconciliation as a mark of the times and their spirit of unity. The satire is sharp, the analysis precise, and Grass is still expert in drawing out the painful comedy of human behaviour and the pitfalls that await good intentions'. ([-The New Yorker] Amazon).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Call of the Toad. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.
• Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436200643
• ISBN 13: 9780436200649
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The Call of the Toad

From the Back Cover

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.