by Günter Grass · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420464589
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«A paso de cangrejo» is the historical novel by Günter Grass, published by Alfaguara in paperback (248 pages, in Spanish).
Three generations of a family serve to reconstruct the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945, when many civilians fleeing the Soviet advance died. The event was silenced by both sides. The survivor Tulla gives birth to Paul, a mediocre journalist; his son Konrad, obsessed with computing, will be the one to uncover the truth.
The novel originally appeared in German in 2002; this Spanish edition, translated by Miguel Sáenz, is from 2003.
For readers of historical fiction, interested in World War II and German historical memory.
Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
