- Fiction, Cemeteries, Germans, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
A couple from Gdansk has a unique idea for a business: selling cemetery plots in Gdansk to Germans who were exiled after WWII.
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Prestige, classical in form, contemplative and intimate.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Günter Grass
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 299
- Publisher
- Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Steidl Verlag, Steidl
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780151257430
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First sentence
“Chance put the widower next to the widow.”
About Günter Grass · 1927–2015
German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor
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