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Local anaesthetic / Gunter Grass ; translated by Ralph Manheim.
By: Grass, Günter
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Contributor(s): Mannheim, Ralph.
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BookPublisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1973Description: 231 p. ; 19 cm.ISBN: 0140037292.Subject(s): German fiction -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 833.91 GRA
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| 833.91 BOL The train was on time / | 833.91 BOL The end of a mission / | 833.91 BOL The lost honour of Katharina Blum : or How violence develops and where it can lead / | 833.91 GRA Local anaesthetic / | 833.91 MAN Death in Venice / | 833.912 All quiet on the western front / | 834.91 Illuminations / |
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Günter Wilhelm Grass was born on October 16, 1927 in the Free City of Danzig, which is now Gdansk, Poland. He was a member of the Hitler Youth and at the age of 17, he was drafted into the German army. Near the end of the war, he served as a tank gunner in the 10th SS Panzer Division. He was captured by the Americans and forced to visit the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. After his release from a POW camp in 1946, he worked in a potash mine and as a stonemason's apprentice and studied painting and sculpture in Düsseldorf.His first novel, The Tin Drum, was published in 1959. It was adapted into a film and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1979. His other works included Cat and Mouse, Dog Years, From the Diary of a Snail, The Flounder, The Rat, and Crabwalk. He also wrote a memoir entitled Peeling the Onion. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. He was also a political activist and liberal provocateur. He advocated for environmental conservation, debt relief for poor countries, and generous policies regarding political asylum. He died on April 13, 2015 at the age of 87.
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