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Local Anaesthetic is a 1969 novel by the German writer Günter Grass. It tells the story of an idealistic high-school teacher who believes society, like a pupil, is learning from experience and reason.
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طبل الصفيح، رواية للكاتب الألماني غونتر غراس نشرت عام 1959. أنتجت فيلماً طبل الصفيح حاز على جائزة السعفة الذهبية وجائزة الأوسكار لأفضل فيلم بلغة أجنبية.
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Cat and Mouse, published in Germany in 1961 as Katz und Maus, is a novella by Günter Grass, the second book of the Danzig Trilogy, and the sequel to The Tin Drum. It is about Joachim Mahlke, an alienated only child without a father. The narrator Pilenz "alone could be termed his friend, if it were possible to be …