by Günter Grass · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420442075
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«El gato y el ratón» is the short novel by Günter Grass, published by Alfaguara in hardback (228 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Danzig during the Second World War, it narrates the adolescence of Joachim Mahlke, a young man whose goitre makes him the target of mockery and also an object of admiration. A group of boys turns a half-sunken ship into a refuge for adventures, while the war pushes them towards the front. Grass portrays the search for identity and acceptance in a youthful world that is falling apart.
Second instalment of the Danzig Trilogy, which also includes The Tin Drum and Dog Years. The novel was originally published in 1961.
For readers of modern and contemporary fiction and of stories set during the Second World War with a focus on adolescence.
Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
