Gunter Grass - Novels & Selected Poetry (5 books)

GÜNTER GRASS (b. 1927) is a German novelist, poet, and playwright, who is widely regarded as Germany's most famous living writer. When he was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy noted him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history."

This collection features the "Danzig Trilogy", a series of novels that focuses on the interwar and wartime period in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland): THE TIN DRUM, acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, is the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution; CAT AND MOUSE, centered on the narrator's vivid recollection of a boyhood scene during World War II; and DOG YEARS, a novel in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 1950s, that follows the lives of two friends from the prewar years in Germany through an apocalyptic period and its startling aftermath.

In addition, THE CALL OF THE TOAD, a satiric tale of love, mortality and politics in a changing Eastern Europe, and NOVEMBERLAND, a selection of poetry, are presented here.


The following books are a mix of PDF and/or EPUB formats:

* THE CALL OF THE TOAD (Harcourt Brace & Co, 1992). Translated by Ralph Manheim. -- PDF

* CAT AND MOUSE (Harcourt Brace & Co, 1991). Translated by Ralph Manheim. -- EPUB + PDF

* DOG YEARS (Harcourt Brace & Co, 1965). Translated by Ralph Manheim. -- EPUB

* NOVEMBERLAND: Selected Poems, 1956-1993 (Harcourt Brace & Co, 1996). Translated by Michael Hamburger. -- PDF

* THE TIN DRUM (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009). Translated by Breon Mitchell. -- EPUB