The flounder
by Günter Grass
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Based loosely on Grimm's The Fisherman and his Wife, this triumphant blend of folk tale and contemporary story takes place over the course of nine months, during which the wife of the narrator becomes pregnant and is regaled with tales of the various cooks the fisherman has met throughout his life. The emerging themes of the novel expose the periods when men made history and women's contributions went largely, in some cases gravely, unrecognized. Inventive, imaginitive and irreverent, this humorous, fundamentally brilliant novel highlights the value of modern-day myth and timeless legend.
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The flounder
1989, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Harvest Books
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0156319357 9780156319355
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"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Translation of Der Butt.
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