Contemporary German novel, the subject of much controversy when it was first published in 1959, focuses on the years of Nazi control in Germany as seen through the eyes of an intelligent dwarf, masquerading as a retarded lunatic.
German author G?nter Grass tells his life story, describing his experiences in the Waffen-SS during World War II and in an American prisoner of war camp afterward; his relationship with his first great love, Anna; his mother's death; and his start as a novelist.
