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Crabwalk

By Gunter Grass, Krishna Winston (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9780156029704

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Hailed by critics and readers alike as Günter Grass's best book since The Tin Drum, Crabwalk is an engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and a critical meditation on Germany's struggle with its wartime memories.

The Gustloff, a German cruise ship turned refugee carContinue

Hailed by critics and readers alike as Günter Grass's best book since The Tin Drum, Crabwalk is an engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and a critical meditation on Germany's struggle with its wartime memories.

The Gustloff, a German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, was attacked by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. Some nine thousand people went down in the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest maritime disaster of all time. Born to an unwed mother on a lifeboat the night of the attack, Paul Pokriefke is a middle-aged journalist trying to piece together the tragic events. For his teenage son, who dabbles in the dark, far-right corners of the Internet, the Gustloff embodies the denial of Germany's suffering. Crabwalk is at once a captivating tale of a tragedy at sea and a fearless examination of the ways different generations of Germans now view their past.

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  • Prose in peril on the sea

    Crabwalk 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. The narrator, Paul Pokriefke, is marked by the event, since his mother was ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The wreck of the Gustloff

    Crabwalk 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 Te ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • Otto's Books[return]Williamsport, PA[return]March 19th, 2007[return]$13

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 252 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0156029707
  • ISBN-13: 9780156029704
  • Publisher: Harvest Books
  • Pub date: Apr 05, 2004
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
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