The Flounder (Helen & Kurt Wolff Book)

THE BOOK: Heralded by many as Grass's finest work, The Flounder was first published in 1977. Through the Flounder, taken from the fairy story The Fisherman and his Wife, Grass analyses the battle of the sexes with characteristic insight and humour. The Flounder is a rich and multi-layered novel, redolent with good food, laced with poetry and spiced with wit and humour. Enormously enjoyable - it is a major work by one of this century's greatest writers.