My Century

U.S.A: Harcourt, Inc, 1999. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First US Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition.Translated by Michael Henry Heim. Gunter Grass is the Winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature. From Germany's most eminent contemporary writer, this is a collection of interlinked stories celebrating the 20th century. Gunter Grass writes of great events and some seemingly trivial happenings of the 20th century--technical developments, scientific discoveries, achievements in culture and sports, of megalomania, of persecution and murder, of war and disasters, and of new beginnings. A historical portrait of the millennium. One hundred stories come full circle to create a novel of our century. Clean, unmarked, tight & solid volume. Fine jacket is not price-clipped. Gunter TGrss, born in Danzig, Germany, in 1927, is man of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. He is the author of a number of acclaimed books including THE TIN DRUM, CAT AND MOUSE, DOG YEARS, THE FLOUNDER, THE RAT, and THE CALL OF THE TOAD. 276 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Harcourt, Inc., Orlando Florida, 1999.