Uncle and Claudius the Camel Günter Grass Tokyo is a novel that

Tokyo is a novel that takes hold of the reader and does not let go until its explosive final pages

Patricia Duncker's gripping novel is a disturbing tale of Oedipal passion

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and of the unforeseen ways in which the past can illuminate and transform the present

and then and only then will you be good enough

Uncle and Claudius the Camel Günter Grass Tokyo is a novel thatUncle does not often go on holiday as very few hotels provide beds big enough for elephants. At Sunset Beach he hopes for a real rest and change, but almost at once fifty camels, led by the courteous Claudius, arrive with news of trouble at his great castle of Homeward. From this moment his attempts to have a holiday are interrupted by one unexpected happening after another. Uncle and his faithful followers rescue holiday makers from the sinister