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Synopsis
This collection of linked stories by Gunter Gräss, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize--one for every year of the century--comprises a unique and vivid picture of the period.
| Size | | Length: | 280 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 16.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Even for German readers..., this is an awkward way to reconstruct the past, filled with allusions to remote, at times esoteric, events. For Americans, apart from the handful trained in German history, continuous bafflement is almost guaranteed."
New York Times Book Review - Peter Gay (12/19/1999)
"Fortunately, Grass' wryness and sense of perverse whimsy infiltrate most of the book. Sometimes he even mocks his own anti-establishment pursuits....Not all the characters in MY CENTURY are iconoclasts, but they all insist on their version of the truth. Noisy and contradictory, the speakers offer up history not as a manifesto but as a convincing collision of perspectives."
Chicago Tribune Books - Carolyn Alessio
"Soldiers, housewives, cops, journalists, grandparents, activists, a professor, a dirigible pilot, a businesswoman and ravers in the Berlin Love Parade all contribute their little share to a mosaic of the German nation in war and peace. The result is not a novel so much as a scrapbook of commentary, because what drives you through isn't story or theme--it's rank curiosity about what Günter Grass will have to say about some juicy year."
Salon - Michael Scott Moore (12/14/1999)
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