The Flounder

It all begins in the Stone Age when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass''s home town Danzig will arise. Like the fish the fisherman is immortal and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book