This is going to be the very, very short version as one would have to write pages to do justice to this book and I'm just not up to it. In a nutshell..Oskar is born with the understanding of an adult. He hears a conversation between his mother and her husband in which the husband says Oskar will gro...
I determined to read the rest of the Danzig Trilogy after enjoying The Tin Drum a great deal, and I thought that if I wasn't overwhelmed by that epic, there couldn't be anything to dread in the others, could there? But what I didn't know was that Dog Years is "without doubt one of the most astonishi...
I read The Tin Drum as part of my pet project to read (or have read) at least one book by each of the authors mentioned in the lyrics of The Divine Comedy song 'The Booklovers'. As such, I had no idea what to expect and will admit to being somewhat daunted by this weighty - almost 600 pages - tome, ...
Sobering historical fiction that examines the complex lingering impacts of Germany's experience as both aggressor in Europe and victim of Soviet atrocities during WWII. The book explores the reactions of 3 generations of one family affected by the sinking of the Gustloff, in which thousands, mainly,...
Dieses Buch steht schon seit Jahren in meinem Regal, weil mein Vater meinte, wenn ich etwas von Grass lesen wolle, solle ich doch mit diesem Buch anfangen. Ich habe es jetzt gelesen und muss sagen - mir ist die Lust darauf, andere Bücher von Grass zu lesen, gründlich vergangen. Ich fand das Buch seh...
Re-Read details:As Hitler rises to power, three-year-old Oskar decides he doesn't want to grow up. Stars Phil Daniels and Kenneth Cranham. Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 10:00am Thursday 27th May 2010blurb - Classic novel of the rise and fall of Hitler as seen through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator, O...
One hundred short stories with a very high average level.The short format of these miniatures helps. In this case, being concise avoiding digressions makes Grass' way of writing even better.Each narration you will find here is related to one of the years between 1900 and 2000. Different point of vie...
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