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Crabwalk

Günter Grass · 2002 CE · Novel · German · Contemporary

A journalist born on the night in January 1945 when a Soviet submarine sank the refugee ship Wilhelm Gustloff learns that his own son has made the disaster a cause for the far right. Tulla Pokriefke, who first appeared in Cat and Mouse, returns as his mother, and the book breaks Germany's long silence over German suffering.

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