Dog Years

KEY POINTS: * The final part of Grass's famous Danzig Trilogy (the first two books are The Tin Drum and Cat And Mouse). * A core stock backlist item. Grass joins other Minerva twentieth century classic writers (Calvino, Mann, Kafka). * Minerva are rejacketing and repackaging Grass for the backlist - a very strong and attractive generic cover design. * A new book by Grass will be published in October 1997. * The re-issuing of this classic work of the twentieth century literature will attract new readers to Grass's work.

THE BOOK: First published in 1963, Dog Years is the concluding part of Grass's famous Danzig Trilogy. In a fusion of mythology and realiy, magic and romance, it charts forty years of German history commencing from 1917, with the objective of exposing the madness of a society that bred and nurtered the horrors of the Third Reich, then anaesthetised itself with the chaos of disintegration.

About the Author

Günter Grass, born in Danzig in 1927, is Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer. He is a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.