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Crabwalk

First UK edition of Günter Grass's Crabwalk

Günter Grass; translated by Krishna Winston
First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 234. Navy blue paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt to spine; butter-yellow endpapers.
Translated from the German by Krishna Winston. Originally published as Im Krebsgang: Eine Novelle, by Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Deutschland, 2002.
A fictional account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a former cruiseship turned refugee carrier, by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. It resulted in the loss of some 9,000 lives, mostly women and children fleeing the advancing Red Army, and to-date constitutes the deadliest maritime disaster in history. Author's bracing examination of a long-held taboo – the sufferings of ordinary Germans during WWII. Winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. "In his best book in a long while, Günter Grass once again dazzlingly analyzes Germany's past and present, while hinting soberly at its future." The New York Times Book Review
edition
first UK
format
hardback
publisher
Faber and Faber
published in
London
publication year
2003
ISBN
0571216501
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding style
paper-covered boards
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
mint
of jacket
mint
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