Im Krebsgang: Eine Novelle
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: **GERMAN TEXT ONLY**
In the frozen waters of the Baltic Sea, on the night of January 30, 1945, the German passenger liner Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine — sending over nine thousand refugees to their deaths in one of history's most devastating maritime disasters. Im Krebsgang (published in English as Crabwalk) chronicles this largely forgotten tragedy through the eyes of Paul Pokriefke, a journalist born on the night of the sinking, whose mother survived the catastrophe, and whose teenage son becomes dangerously obsessed with neo-Nazi mythology surrounding the ship's namesake. Günter Grass, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, constructs a masterwork of layered narrative and moral complexity, moving — like a crab — sideways through time rather than in a straight line. The novella confronts Germany's long-suppressed grief over wartime civilian losses, arguing that historical silence breeds dangerous ignorance across generations. Written with Grass's signature blend of dark irony, political urgency, and mythic resonance, it forces its readers to reckon with the uncomfortable truth that victimhood and culpability are rarely mutually exclusive — leaving one to wonder just how far the past will reach into the present before its grip finally loosens.
Author: Günter Grass
Format: Hardback
Published: 2003, Steidl
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: **GERMAN TEXT ONLY**
In the frozen waters of the Baltic Sea, on the night of January 30, 1945, the German passenger liner Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine — sending over nine thousand refugees to their deaths in one of history's most devastating maritime disasters. Im Krebsgang (published in English as Crabwalk) chronicles this largely forgotten tragedy through the eyes of Paul Pokriefke, a journalist born on the night of the sinking, whose mother survived the catastrophe, and whose teenage son becomes dangerously obsessed with neo-Nazi mythology surrounding the ship's namesake. Günter Grass, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, constructs a masterwork of layered narrative and moral complexity, moving — like a crab — sideways through time rather than in a straight line. The novella confronts Germany's long-suppressed grief over wartime civilian losses, arguing that historical silence breeds dangerous ignorance across generations. Written with Grass's signature blend of dark irony, political urgency, and mythic resonance, it forces its readers to reckon with the uncomfortable truth that victimhood and culpability are rarely mutually exclusive — leaving one to wonder just how far the past will reach into the present before its grip finally loosens.