Download or read book The Flounder written by Günter Grass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1989 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immortal fisherman catches an immortal talking fish in the Stone Age, and they live eternally until modern times in Germany, bound by the man's insatiable pregnant wife and entanglements with various female cooks. The narrating fisherman uses his predicament to comment on gender and nutrition in society, as well as gloat over the fish's second capture and subsequent trial by women for his historical role in subjugating women.