Too Far Afield

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Century and The Tin Drum a novel of broad historical proportions set in Berlin during the years of German reunification.Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. Theo Wuttke a former East German functionary is a keen observer and a gifted speaker. Ludwig Hoftaller is a mid-level spy whose loyalties shift with each new regime. Together both men see what the future is bringing as they try to save what they can from the past and understand the meaning of being German.A complex and challenging exploration of what Germany''s reunification will mean-for Germans for Europe and for the world-Too Far Afield is a masterwork from one of Europe''s greatest writers. Written with the wit fantasy literary erudition and political acerbity for which Grass is celebrated it is a deeply human story laced with pain and humor in equal measure.