Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with Willie Brandt. Underlying all is the snail, the central symbol that is both model and a parody of social progress, and a mysterious metaphor for political reform.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of The Tin Drum.
- ISBN10 0156339501
- ISBN13 9780156339506
- Publish Date 15 March 1976 (first published 13 May 1974)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harpervia
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 310
- Language English