Månpocket, Stockholm, 1999. 8o. Pocketbok. Mycket fint skick. Översatt av John W Waldén. 197 sid.

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C O N D I T I O N : Good. N O T E S: Paperback. C O N T E N T S : Gunter Grass, says The Times, 'is on his own as an artist'. And indeed this extraordinary provoking and joyously Rabelaisian celebration of life, food and sex is unique. Lifted from their ancient fairytale, the fisherman and his wife are still living today. During the months of Ilsebill's pregnancy the fisherman tells her of his adventures through time with the Flounder, whose magic powers have been responsible for male predominance. What has happened to him, to the cooks of each age and to the Flounder, eventually faced with the anger of a feminist tribunal, constitutes a complete reworking of social, political and gastronomic history. The Flounder is a rich and many-layered novel, redolent with good food, laced with poetry and spiced with wit and humour. Enormously enjoyable it is 'the novel of a man at the height of remarkable powers'. 'Imaginative, witty …he is a man of extraordinary talents' - Spectator. ||| || |