Dog Years

In this ferocious novel of the Hitler years and their aftermath, the author of The Tin Drum tells a brilliant bizarre and savage tale of "the love-hate and blood brotherhood of Nazi and Jew. . . The strongest, most inventive writer to have emerged in Germany since 1945. . . Much of what is active conscience in the Germany of Krupp and the Munich beer halls lies in this man's ribald keeping."—George Steiner, Commentary

Günter Grass was born in Danzig, Germany, in 1927. Sculptor, draftsman, novelist, playwright and poet, he has traveled widely in the United States and Europe. He is presently living in Berlin with his Swiss wife and their children.

His first novel, The Tin Drum, published in 1963, p been translated into every major European language. Cat and Mouse has the same milieu as The Tin Drum—Danzig and its petty bourgeoisie. Dog Years is his third novel.

Mr. Grass has been internationally acclaimed as one of the most imaginative and powerful contemporary novelists. Time has called him "Probably the most inventive talent to be heard from anywhere since the war."