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The Call of the Toad

Günter Grass

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Published by Vintage Classics, part of Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback

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EAN: 9780749398781
Published: 27 Sep 1993

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'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

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum comes a satire of european politics and a love story.

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What the critics say

Mr Grass has a more lyrical, a more glorious sense of locality than any other novelist today
- New York Times

With The Call of the Toad, Grass brings the fable landscape of the Europe of his lifetime up to date
- Financial Times

A funny, wise, hugely enjoyable fantasy
- Financial Times

About the Author

Günter Grass, born in Danzig in 1927, is Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer. He is a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.

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