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The Box: Tales from the Darkroom
The Box Tales from the Darkroom
Author: Gunter Grass
“Once upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old, called together his sons and daughters—four, five, six, eight in number—and finally convinced them, after long hesitation, to do as he wished. Now they are sitting around a table and begin to talk . . .? In an audacious literary experiment, Günter Grass writes in ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780547245034
ISBN-10: 0547245033
Publication Date: 11/10/2010
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This unusual set of stories captures the authors fictionalized family through the lens of a pre-war box camera. No quotation marks, but most of it is dialog among family members who reminisce about life with father: set in the post-war days between The Tin Drum and Dog Years.


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