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@lt;DIV@gt;It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book@lt;br@gt;@lt;/div@gt;
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The Flounder, Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim
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- Released
- 1979
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- Title
- The Flounder
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 1979
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 560
- ISBN10
- 0140049207
- ISBN13
- 9780140049206
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Germany, Food, Feminism, Berlin, Pregnancy, Nobel prize, Fish, Gdańsk
- First published
- 1977
- Original title
- Der Butt
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- @lt;DIV@gt;It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book@lt;br@gt;@lt;/div@gt;