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Loading... Im Krebsgangby Günter Grass
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Zwischen Hela und Rügen: Nacht. Schneetreiben. Ein U-Boot-Kommandant, der den Torpedotreffer verbucht; die Mutter, die mit ihrem Säugling in die eiskalte Ostsee sinkt.  r1hard | Nov 22, 2009 |  Tried, but couldn't care enough to read it. A trusted co-reader, describing another Grass work, said it well: "dragging my feet through wet cement." bkswrites | May 9, 2009 | Þessi bók er vel skrifuð og þýðingin góð, en sagan greip mig ekki neinum heljartökum. Að sama skapi eru þetta ekki bókmenntir sem ég sækist í að jafnaði. Hins vegar fræddist ég um margt og þá sérstaklega þennan hræðilega skipsskaða, þegar Wilhelm Gustloff var sökkt í lok stríðsins, en það er útgangspunktur (eða jafnvel miðpunktur) sögunnar. Það sem pirrar mig þó, er myndin á forsíðunni. Hún er ekki í neinu samræmi við lýsinguna á því, hvernig dallurinn sökk. Þetta er erfitt líf fyrir okkur sem erum svona smámunasöm og varla á það bætandi. (  ) arazone | Jan 7, 2008 | I found this story quite difficult to access at first. I wonder if that is partly because some of it was given in a sort of documentary narrative which I struggled to engage with, even though the "crabwalk" between stories, characters, chronologies and relationships was alluded to by the narrator. I found that I preferred the sections of the novel which dealt with the sinking of the Gustloff than the sections about Konrad, who was a distinctly unlikeable character. Which probably pays testament to Grass' skill I suppose. Worth reading? Yes I think so. (  ) gemilyinterrupted | Jun 19, 2007 | One of the books in which I took a long break in the middle of reading. I found it very dry to begin with - perhaps it was adjusting to German writing.But in the second run, I actually liked it, especially since the story moved at a better pace, and slightly away from the slow "crabwalk" The story is about the sinking of a ship "Gustloff" by a Soviet submarine, and the lives that were affected by this sinking. But I think, in narrating the ship's fate, the author has also tried to draw attention to the race bias in Germany and the changes that the country had to deal with post its defeat in the world war II. I still think that the writing looked mechanical and journalistic, even though the events narrated were charged and were of a personal nature. ( ) madhuri_agrawal | Apr 8, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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