Too Far Afield
Two elderly German men, Theo Wuttke and Ludwig Hoftaller, both in their seventies, and
who now work for a company set up to privatize the former East Germany, find themselves
examining their country's past and present in Gunter Grass' “Too Far Afield.” This is a
poignant accounting of their feelings as the Berlin Wall has fallen around them, and it is
their jobs to make some sense outof the whole thing. Bizarre, surreal, comic, tragic--this
book i...
