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About Gunter Grass
See more books from this AuthorMitigating humor comes from Paul’s decision to “sneak up on time in a crabwalk, seeming to go backward but actually scuttling sideways,” often teasing the reader by veering off at climactic moments to ratchet up the tension before coming to his bleak conclusion: “Never will it end.” Grass as lu...
| Read Full Review of CrabwalkMother and her parents had their best holiday on the Gustloff.
Apr 28 2003 | Read Full Review of CrabwalkCrabwalk by Günter Grass translated by Krishna Winston 234 pp, Faber, £16.99 There has been a pattern in Günter Grass's career of little scraps of books following on the heels of bigger productions: Cat and Mouse after The Tin Drum, The Meeting at Telgte after The Flounder, and now Crabwalk afte...
May 10 2003 | Read Full Review of CrabwalkThen Paul is asked by the author "of that mighty tome, Dog Years" - ie Günter Grass - to write a "report" on the sinking of the Gustloff and its aftermath.
Apr 17 2004 | Read Full Review of CrabwalkCrabwalk by Günter Grass Faber £16.99, pp234 Günter Grass's rather bleak new novel centres on the sinking in 1945 of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German ship crowded with refugees.
Mar 23 2003 | Read Full Review of CrabwalkGrass also weaves in details about the Russian sub commander, Aleksandr Marinesko, but the decidedly modern touch is the inclusion of Pokriefke's son, Konrad, an unbalanced loner who becomes deeply involved with the Web site dedicated to commemorating Gustloff's "martyrdom" and the vessel Hitler ...
| Read Full Review of CrabwalkPaul Pokriefke, born on a lifeboat to an unwed 17-year-old mother as the ship sank, spends his life in the shadow of the torpedoed Wilhelm Gustloff.
Apr 05 2003 | Read Full Review of CrabwalkThus his present-day narrator, sad-sack journalist Paul Pokriefke, is forced to ''crabwalk'' across a stubbornly undead 20th century in an attempt to explain the link between his mother's frighteningly adaptable nationalism, his son's chillingly academic descent into right-wing fanaticism, and a ...
Apr 18 2003 | Read Full Review of CrabwalkAn aggregated and normalized score based on 33 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes