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Parallel tales of the struggle between the sexes down the ages run through this story of an immortal talking fish from the Stone Age whose insidious counseling to men led to the overthrow of the matriarchy and the rise of the patriarchy
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It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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