The Flounder

by Grass, Gunter; Manheim, Ralph (translated by)

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Book description: Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1989. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Grass shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness, with ingenious construction and imaginative richness and scope, buoyed throughout by irreverent, frequently outrageous humor. This story begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman, at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal. Down the ages they move together, from matriarchy to patriarchy, the latter brought about by the Flounder's insidious counseling to the males held under female subjection. The relationship of the sexes in the periods when men made history and women's contribution went largely unacknowledged, and the history and importance of nutrition throughout the ages, form the two great themes of the novel. The cover has a vertical cut near the right bottom; it does not go through the cover. 547 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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