Dog Years
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A monumental work of postwar German literature, Dog Years is the third and final installment in Günter Grass's celebrated Danzig Trilogy, following The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse. The novel chronicles the intertwined lives of two men — Walter Matern and Eddi Amsel — from their childhood in the Vistula delta through the horrors of the Nazi era and into the moral ambiguities of postwar Germany. Narrated across three distinct voices, Grass constructs a darkly satirical and richly symbolic epic that dissects collective guilt, identity, and the corrosive legacy of fascism. Written with fierce, inventive prose and mythological undertones, the novel stands as one of the most ambitious literary reckonings with Germany's twentieth-century trauma.
Author: Günter Grass
Format: Paperback
Published: 1974, Penguin
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A monumental work of postwar German literature, Dog Years is the third and final installment in Günter Grass's celebrated Danzig Trilogy, following The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse. The novel chronicles the intertwined lives of two men — Walter Matern and Eddi Amsel — from their childhood in the Vistula delta through the horrors of the Nazi era and into the moral ambiguities of postwar Germany. Narrated across three distinct voices, Grass constructs a darkly satirical and richly symbolic epic that dissects collective guilt, identity, and the corrosive legacy of fascism. Written with fierce, inventive prose and mythological undertones, the novel stands as one of the most ambitious literary reckonings with Germany's twentieth-century trauma.