Cat and Mouse by G?nter Grass (English) Paperback Book

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To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple - source of both comfort and stress - 14-year-old Mahlke turns himself into an athlete and ace driver. Soon he is known to the nation as "The Great Mahlke" but remains a target to his enemies. He is different, and doomed.

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A powerful story set in war-torn Danzig about a teenager's rise from clown to hero by Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass.To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple - source of both discomfort and distress - fourteen year old Joachim Mahlke turns himself into athlete and ace diver. Soon he is known to his peers and his nation as 'The Great Mahlke'. But to his enemies, he remains a target. He is different and doomed in a country scarred by the war.Cat and Mouse was first published in 1961, two years after Gunter Grass' controversial and applauded masterpiece, The Tin Drum. Once again Grass turns his attention on Danzig. With a subtle blend of humour and power, Cat and Mouse ostensibly relates the rise of Mahlke from clown to hero. But Mahlke's outlandish antics hide the darkness at the heart of a nation torn by Nazi violence, the war and its aftermath.

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New Minerva edition of this novel which was first published in 1961.

Author Biography

G nter 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.

Review

Grass is one of the master fabulists of our age -- Michale Ratcliffe * The Times *Grass is probably the nearest thing we have to a certain genius in living novelists -- Marghanita LaskiGrass is one of the few great writers in Europe today * Sunday Telegraph *

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Kirkus US Review

?? Gunter Grass' second novel is quite different in character from The Tin Drum??. ?? less of a showcase for an obstreperous talent (although there are still scenes of caricature and occasional scabrous humor), it is a more controlled book and far more internalized. This time the German-realist-surrealist, while again using many symbolic allusions, has subdued some of the abstractions, some of the elements of the absurd. The latter is chiefly apparent in the physical disfigurement of the central character which again singularizes him: the demonic Oskar Matzerath was a ??warf; now it is the protuberant Adam's apple which jumps conspicuously like a mouse ?? the neck of Mahlke whose story is told by his friend Pilenz. Both boys grow up together in a small Danzig town and the always solicitous, increasingly admiring Pilenz follows Mahlke, in a sense an unlikely hero, odd, quiet, solemn, devout, as ??e performs his amazing feats. These extend from the childish games, when- as an underwater diver- he brings up trophies from a sunken minesweeper in the bay, to the atrocities of war and his spectacular performance in action. Little by little, however, there is the erosion of the individual by the system and Mahlke, the "mouse", the "clown", but most of all the "redeemer" with his resounding faith, goes deliberately to his death. It is the gesture of the individual against the philistinism which has always dominated German life and which was so much a part of the earlier book.... A tantalizing, eloquent, strange and strangely moving book, filled with remarkable scenes, a tragi-comic vitality and a transcendental vision. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Grass is one of the master fabulists of our age

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Grass is one of the few great writers in Europe today

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A powerful story set in war-torn Danzig about a teenager's rise from clown to hero by Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass.

Details ISBN0749394803 Pages 192 Year 1997 Translator Ralph Manheim ISBN-10 0749394803 ISBN-13 9780749394806 Format Paperback Publication Date 1997-03-17 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from German DEWEY 833.914 Birth 1907 Death 1992 Media Book Language English Publisher Vintage Publishing Imprint Vintage Classics DOI 10.1604/9780749394806 UK Release Date 1997-03-17 AU Release Date 1997-03-17 NZ Release Date 1997-03-17 Author Günter Grass Alternative 9781448180073 Audience General We've got this

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