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  • Published: 5 September 1997
  • ISBN: 9780749394509
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $32.00

Dog Years




The final part of the magisterial Danzig Trilogy by Nobel Prize-winning Günter Grass.

In an explosive fusion of myth and reality, magic and romance, Dog Years charts forty years of German history, starting with 1917, to expose the madness of a society that bred and nurtured the horrors of the Third Reich before anaesthetising itself with the chaos of disintegration.

  • Published: 5 September 1997
  • ISBN: 9780749394509
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $32.00

About the author

Günter Grass

Günter Grass (1927–2015) was Germany’s most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass’s first novel, The Tin Drum, is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.

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Praise for Dog Years

Günter Grass releases, against the grain of history, a troop of obsessional characters, armed often with magical or at least disconcerting powers, who gnaw through the madness of the Third Reich and the chaos of the collapse, into the complacent fabric of modern West Germany

Neal Ascherson, New Statesman

Forty years of twentieth-century German history observed through a massive fable about men and dogs. Mad, Gothic, repetitive and bitterly funny

Michael Ratcliffe, Sunday Times

Grass is one of the few great writers in Europe today

Sunday Telegraph