The Cambridge Companion to Günter Grass

By: Stuart Taberner

Book Overview

G nter Grass is Germany's best-known and internationally most successful living author, from his first novel The Tin Drum to his recent controversial autobiography. He is known for his tireless social and political engagement with the issues that have shaped post-War Germany: the difficult legacy of the Nazi past, the Cold War and the arms race, environmentalism, unification and racism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999. This Companion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521700191
• ISBN13: 9780521700191
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"