The Rat (novel)

The Rat (German: Die Rättin, literally The Ratess) is a 1986 novel by the West German writer Günter Grass.

Reception

Janette Turner Hospital of The New York Times called the book an "exhilarating, exhausting, maddening, brilliant, funny and profoundly disturbing novel".^[1]

See also

• 1986 in literature
• German literature

References

Works by Günter Grass Prose The Tin Drum Cat and Mouse Dog Years Local Anaesthetic The Flounder The Meeting at Telgte The Rat The Call of the Toad My Century Crabwalk Peeling the Onion The Box Poetry "What Must Be Said" Related topics Danzig Trilogy