The Call of the Toad Günter Grass. Transl. from the German by Ralph Manheim

Grass, Gunter und Ralph Manheim:

ISBN 10: 0436200643 / ISBN 13: 9780436200649

Published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1992

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248 S. In gutem Zustand. 29445 ISBN 9780436200649 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 369.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Call of the Toad Günter Grass. Transl. from the German by Ralph Manheim
• Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436200643
• ISBN 13: 9780436200649
• Binding: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 369 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Varia

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Synopsis

The Call of the Toad

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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.