"Sono morto a 6840 metri sopra il livello del mare il quattro maggio dell'anno del Cavallo. Il luogo della mia morte si trovava ai piedi di una guglia rocciosa corazzata di ghiaccio, nel cui lato riparato dal vento avevo superato la notte."
Kafka napísal List otcovi v novembri 1919, keď sa zotavoval v Schelesene neďaleko Libochu, severne od Prahy. Listu predchádzali dva roky napätia medzi synom a otcom...
A collection of one hundred inter-linked stories celebrating the twentieth century, by Germany's most eminent contemporary writer. As the sequence of stories unfolds, a lively and rich picture emerges, an historical portrait of our century in all its grandeur and in all its horror.
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Century and The Tin Drum, a novel of broad historical proportions set in Berlin during the years of German reunification.Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. Theo Wuttke, a former East German functionary, is a keen observer and a gifted speaker. Ludwig Hoftaller is a mid-level spy whose loyalties shift with each new regime. Together, both men see what the future is bringing as they try to save what they can from the past and understand the meaning of being German.A complex and challenging exploration of what Germany's reunification will mean-for Germans, for Europe, and for the world-Too Far Afield is a masterwork from one of Europe's greatest writers. Written with the wit, fantasy, literary erudition, and political acerbity for which Grass is celebrated, it is a deeply human story laced with pain and humor in equal measure.