A masterpiece by one of the most gifted and original of contemporary writers. It is a book that will repay study and rereading. Only a churlish, insular reader could fail to respond to its bold and exhilarating historical sweep, its poetic celebration of food and the arts of cooking

New Statesman

Grass spices his potent brew with a juicy concoction of tales and anecdotes, and a rich, Rabelaisian humour

Daily Telegraph

I know of no one else capable of writing anything like it

Sunday Times

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Grass is one of the few great writers in Europe today

Sunday Telegraph

Günter Grass, says The Times, 'is on his own as an artist', and indeed this extraordinary, provoking and joyously Rabelaisian celebration of life, food and sex is unique.Lifted from their ancient fairytale, the fisherman and his wife are still living today. During the months of Ilsebill's pregnancy, the fisherman tells her of his adventures through time with the Flounder, constituting a complete reworking of social, political and gastronomic history.
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Günter Grass, says The Times, 'is on his own as an artist', and indeed this extraordinary, provoking and joyously Rabelaisian celebration of life, food and sex is unique.Lifted from their ancient fairytale, the fisherman and his wife are still living today.
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Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass takes as his theme the relationships between food, women and war as he re-imagines the fairy tale of The Fisherman and His Wife.

Product details

ISBN
9780749394851
Published
1997
Publisher
Vendor
Vintage Classics
Weight
380 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
224 mm
Thickness
40 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
560

Biographical note

Günter Grass (1927–2015) was Germany’s most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass’s first novel, The Tin Drum, is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.