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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780547577647
soul-searching…this is a novel of great humility, questioning
whether the measure of a life really is a life’s work… [Grass]
shows a remarkable willingness to kick a hole in the usual
self-importance of a prize-winning author.”
–The New York Times Book Review
“Functioning both as experimental fiction and as a sequel of sorts
to Peeling the Onion, Grass’s latest sheds light on a role the
revered German author has thus far only touched upon:
fatherhood.”
– Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A family documentary in the form of a novel, leaving the reader to
decide where the line blurs between fact and fiction…A short,
engaging and puzzling novel: “He simply dreams us up!” says a
daughter, as the reader wonders what to make of these
dreams.”
– Kirkus Reviews
In an audacious literary experiment, Günter Grass writes in the
voices of his eight children as they record memories of their
childhoods, of growing up, of their father, who was always at work
on a new book, always at the margins of their lives. Memories
contradictory, critical, loving, accusatory—they piece together an
intimate picture of this most public of men. To say nothing of
Marie, Grass’s assistant, a family friend of many years, perhaps
even a lover, whose snapshots taken with an old-fashioned Agfa box
camera provide the author with ideas for his work. But her images
offer much more. They reveal a truth beyond the ordinary detail of
life, depict the future, tell what might have been, grant the
wishes in visual form of those photographed. The children speculate
on the nature of this magic: was the enchanted camera a source of
inspiration for their father? Did it represent the power of art
itself? Was it the eye of God?
LEFTOVERS
NO FLASH
MIRACLE-WISE
GODAWFUL MESS
MAKE A WISH
LOOKING BACK
SNAPSHOTS
CROOKED BUSINESS
FROM HEAVEN ABOVE
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