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Günter Grass - The Box: Tales from the Darkroom - 9780099539759 - KEX0276304
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The Box: Tales from the Darkroom

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Description for The Box: Tales from the Darkroom Paperback. A title that deals with questions such as: Was the enchanted camera a source of inspiration for their father? Did it represent the power of art itself? Was it the eye of God? Translator(s): Winston, Krishna. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160. 8vo. Good clean copy

In this delightful sequel to Peeling the Onion, Günter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives. Memories contradictory, critical, loving, accusatory - they piece together an intimate picture of this most public of men.

To say nothing of Marie, Grass's assistant, a family friend of many years, perhaps even a lover, whose snapshots taken with an old-fashioned Agfa box camera provide the author with ideas for his ... Read more

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099539759
SKU
KEX0276304
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Günter Grass
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.

Reviews for The Box: Tales from the Darkroom
With his magical story of Marie's all-seeing camera, he transforms the facts of his headlong but loving life into something far more potent than reportage
Rosemary Goring
Sunday Herald
A short, often charming book...richly comic
Roger Boyes
The Times
A work of art
Allan Massie
Scotsman
Short and beautifully written sequel ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Box: Tales from the Darkroom


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