The Box

Günter Grass · 2008 CE · Narrative Non-fiction · German · Contemporary

The author's eight children talk about their father, in a book organised around a photographer with an old Agfa box camera who records the household. The second volume of Grass's late memoirs, it is openly fictionalised.

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