My Century

My Century (German: Mein Jahrhundert) is a novel written by German author Günter Grass, recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Each chapter is only a few pages long and focuses on a single year from 1900-1999. The story of each year is told in a different way, demarcated by changes in time, place, narrator and literary style.

v t e Works by Günter Grass Danzig Trilogy The Tin Drum (1959) Cat and Mouse (1961) Dog Years (1963) Fiction Local Anaesthetic (1969) The Flounder (1977) The Meeting at Telgte (1979) The Rat (1986) My Century (1999) Crabwalk (2002) Memoirs Peeling the Onion (2006) The Box (2008) Grimms Wörter (2010) Poetry "What Must Be Said" (2012)