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From The Diary Of A Snail [Hardcover]

Gunter Grass (Author), Ralph Manheim (Translator)
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  • Hardcover: 310 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (27 Jan 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0749394552
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749394554
  • Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 19.9 x 2.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 765,209 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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KEY POINTS: * Reverted from Picador. * An author of undisputed world class, now a major Minerva backlist author. * 'Grass is one of the few great writers in Europe today' - Sunday Telegraph. * 'Grass is one of the master fabulists of our age and prehaps its supreme dramatist of metaphor' - Times.

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THE BOOK: Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with Willie Brandt. Underlying all is the snail, the central symbol that is both model and a parody of social progress, and a mysterious metaphor for political reform. (19970421)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtaking, 19 Jun 2010
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What can I say ..... Gunter at his very best....... outstanding, thought provoking, brilliant ....... not a light read ..... loved it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An odd masterpiece!, 14 May 2008
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'From the Diary of a Snail' is an odd book. It combines elements of both novel and political diary, juxterposing the fate of the Jews of Danzig during the Second World War with an account of Grass' own political involvement in the early 1970s. This may sound unpromising, but it is one of those books which really haunts the reader, and its characteristically rambling style enhance a unique literary experience.

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