Gunter Grass

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1959
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Danzig Trilogy

1 - The Tin Drum (1959)
2 - Cat and Mouse (Jun-1963)
3 - Dog Years (Jun-1965)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • The Tin Drum

    The Danzig Trilogy - 1

    One of the greatest modern novels, The Tin Drum is the story of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Matzerath provides a profound yet hila...

  • Cat and Mouse

    The Danzig Trilogy - 2

    The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke’s “mouse”-his prominent Adam’s apple. This incident sets off a wild series of events that ultimately...

  • Dog Years

    The Danzig Trilogy - 3

    In an explosive fusion of myth and reality, magic and romance, Dog Years charts forty years of German history, starting with 1917, to expose the madness of a society that bred and nurtured the horrors of the Third Reich before anaesthetising itself...

  • The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising

    A full-length play dealing with the German intellectuals' abandonment of the East German workers during their rebellion in 1953. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
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  • Local Anaesthetic

    Starusch, a 40-year-old teacher of German and history, undergoes protracted dental treatment in an office where TV is used to distract the patients. Under local anesthesia, the patient projects onto the screen his past and present with the fluidity a...

  • From the Diary of a Snail

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    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 sym...

  • Love Tested

  • The Meeting at Telgte

    A group of leading intellectuals from all parts of Germany gather in 1647 for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond within a divided nation-its language and literature-as the Thirty Years' War comes to an end. Afterword by Leonard Fors...

  • Headbirths or the Germans Are Dying Out

    Harm and Dörte Peters, the quintessential couple, are on vacation in Asia. But wherever they are, they can't get away from the political upheaval back home. With irony and wit, Grass takes aim at capitalism, communism, religion-even reproduction...



  • The Rat

    A female rat engages the narrator in a series of dialogues-convincingly demonstrating to him that the rats will inherit a devastated earth. Dreams alternate with reality in this story within a story within a story. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Hele...

  • The Call of the Toad

    By the author of "The Tin Drum" and "Dog Years", this is the story both of a great undertaking and an unexpected love affair. In a Gdansk graveyard in 1989, a German art historian and a Polish widow share the same idea, to open a "Reconciliation Ceme...

  • The Flounder

    Gunter Grass, says The Times, 'is on his own as an artist', and indeed this extraordinary, provoking and joyously Rabelaisian celebration of life, food and sex is unique. Lifted from their ancient fairytale, the fisherman and his wife are still livin...

  • My Century

    In a work of great originality, Germany's most eminent writer examines the victories and terrors of the twentieth century, a period of astounding change for mankind. Great events and seemingly trivial occurrences, technical developments and scientifi...

  • Too Far Afield

    From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Century and The Tin Drum, a novel of broad historical proportions set in Berlin during the years of German reunification.

    Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former German Democratic ...

  • Crabwalk

    Günter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for decades now, but no book since The Tin Drum has generated as much excitement as this engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. A German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, it w...

  • The Box

    “Once upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old, called together his sons and daughters -- four, five, six, eight in number -- and finally convinced them, after long hesitation, to do as he wished. Now they are sitting around a t...

  • Of All That Ends

    The final work of the Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass -- a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, the world In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, suddenly everything seems possible again: love let...

  • The Living Statue

    A newly discovered and translated jewel of a story from the Nobel laureateAt the end of the 1980s, a writer on a book tour, who very much resembles Grass, passes through East Germany and visits the Cathedral of Naumburg with its famous twelve donor s...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gunter Grass has published 18 books.

Gunter Grass does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Living Statue, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum, was published in January 1959.

Yes. Gunter Grass has 1 series.
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