by Günter Grass · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423118224
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«Katz und Maus» is the short novel by Günter Grass, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (178 pages, in German).
Set in Danzig during the Second World War, the story follows Joachim Mahlke, a student marked by his prominent Adam's apple and his outsider status. Through the eyes of his classmate Pilenz, the novel portrays his efforts to fit in and his obsession with the Iron Cross, exploring adolescence, guilt and identity in wartime.
This work is the second instalment of the Danzig Trilogy; it was originally published in 1961.
For readers with a command of German interested in classic twentieth-century fiction and in the work of Günter Grass.
Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
