Kedi ve Fare

Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass, one of the most important writers of German literature, takes us to Danzig, where he spent his childhood, in Cat and Mouse.

While Europe is plunged into the darkness of the Second World War, a group of teenagers spend their days idle in the Danzig Port. However, as the violence of the war spreads, the fate of the young people will intersect with the conditions of this terrifying period of history.

The story of the transformation of 14-year-old Mahlke, who was ridiculed for his mouse, that is, his too protruding Adam's apple, into a national hero with his successes in the Nazi Army, emerges as a magnificent masterpiece with the author's usual grotesque language.

The shadow of the past of Günter Grass, who joined or was forced to join the Hitler Youth at the age of 15 and the Nazi Army at the age of 17, is embodied in both Pilenz, the narrator of the novel, and Mahlke. Who and what people have to become during wartime is questioned through the cat-and-mouse game between society and the individual, one of the most unforgettable metaphors in the history of literature.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 168

Printing Year: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Red Cat