From Germany to Germany
Subtitle: journal of the year, 1990
By: Günter Grass ; translated from the German by Krishna Winston
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780547364605
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; HISTORY / Europe / Germany
Work titles: Unterwegs von Deutschland nach Deutschland
Description: "In January 1990, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gunter Grass made two New Year's resolutions: the first was to travel extensively in the newly united country and the second was to keep a diary, to record his impressions of a historic time.  Grass takes part in public debates, writes for newspapers, makes speeches, and meets emerging politicians. He talks to German citizens on both sides, listening to their bewilderment, their hopes for the future. Ideas for stories to be told take root--his novels The Call of the Toad and Too Far Afield.  From Germany to Germany is also a personal record: Grass reflects on his family, remembers his boyhood, and comments on the books he is reading, the drawings he is making, and the sumptous meals he cooks for family and friends.  The picture that emerges--not only of the two Germanys struggling for a single identity but of a changed world after the end of the Cold War--is engrossing,  passionate and essential for anyone who wants to understand Europe's new leading nation. "--
Notes: Originally published as: Unterwegs von Deutschland nach Deutschland. Göttingen : Steidl, 2009.