PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
G3nter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility- novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass's first novel, The Tin Drum, is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
As subtle and as delicate as the many feathers depicted through its pages, Of All That Ends is a glorious gift, a final salute true to the singular creativity of the most human, and humane, of artists. Irish Times There is a lovely diversity to these pieces... His intelligence and intellectual engagement remain fiercely undimmed. -- Catherine Taylor Financial Times This beautiful, ironic and often funny final collage of asides and meditations sums up the fabulist's genius. -- Eileen Battersby Irish Times, Book of the Year Autumnal, elegiac and tinged with a twilight charm -- Boyd Tonkin The Arts Desk Of All That Ends radiates a burst of his primitive energy and his subtle shrewdness, using words and pencil lines as a remedy, an antidote to the factual world that we objectify and iconise... Laced with black humour. -- Julian Evans Daily Telegraph
