Books Tell You Why, Inc.

A Very Good+ first printing of the first edition with sunning to the edges of the boards, soiling to the page edges and general wear in a soiled and scuffed dust-jacket in Very Good condition.

Translated by Ralph Manheim from the original German 1977 publication, Der Butt. Nobel Prize winner Grass finished The Flounder for his fiftieth birthday. It begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal. Down the ages they move together, from matriarchy to patriarchy, the latter brought about by the Flounder's insidious counseling to the males held under female subjection ; 8vo; 547 pages.