Gunter Grass - Fiction at the Frontier
With Germany's role in Europe increasingly the subject of public debate, leading novelist Gunter Grass explores his own memories of the Hitler Youth and his controversial fears for the future. Since his first novel
The Tin Drum, Grass has spent more than 30 years trying to settle accounts with his country's past. This year, at the age of 65, his new novel The Call of the Toad has once again placed him at the centre of heated debate in Germany. Omnibus crosses central
Europe from the author's present life in Germany to his lost hometown Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdansk, and explores how Grass's latest work combines his passionate views on Europe with his personal experience of shifting frontiers and the loss of "home".
Director John Silver
Series editor Andrew Snell
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