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Professor Alexander is a German widower who returns to his hometown of Danzig to visit his relatives. He falls in love with the widowed Polish artist Alexandra and becomes happily married. After their marriage, they established a German-Polish cemetery company to help young people who left home return to their roots. The number of relocations is increasing day by day. Not only the elderly Danzig returned from Germany and entered a nursing home to spend his old age, but the descendants of the "removed" are also flocking here. They built massively on the former German territory, and villas and golf courses sprung up all over the place. Voices such as "Germans are occupying land in colonial ways" were heard in the Polish Parliament. The Alexanders were driving to Naples to escape the stress and heard the sound of bombe toads on the road - which locals believed was a bad omen.

"The Crab Walk" is the late masterpiece of German writer Günter Grass. The novel is based on real history: In 1945, the German cruise ship "Gustloff" carrying more than 10,000 refugees and soldiers was sunk by the Soviet army, killing nearly 10,000 people, including about 4,000 children. The novel reveals the serious disasters brought by the war initiators to the people of the country. Tula, a pregnant woman on the ship, was rescued, and her son Paul was born on the night of the disaster. Mother and son fled to Germany. The elderly Tula told his grandson Conrad about the shipwreck and other experiences. Conrad developed extreme ideas, founded a neo-Nazi website, advocated racial hatred, and shot and killed netizens who pretended to be Jewish youths. The work explores the tragedy caused by the Nazis and the war, and analyzes the underlying reasons for the resurgence of right-wing racist ideas in Germany.

"Meeting at Terget" is a novel by Glass. In the first half of the 17th century, there were deep contradictions and constant conflicts between various religious sects, German emperors and princes in Germany. After the Thirty Years' War, a group of literati with lofty ideals gathered in the small town of Terget to talk about the past and the present. They spoke freely. While discussing serious academic issues such as poetry and drama, they lamented the fate of themselves and their motherland. With the help of poems and essays, they worked together to reunify the motherland, but while they were talking loudly, they also made jokes, used vulgar words, and were informal and unrestrained. In the end, they even drafted a "peace appeal" together, but an unexpected fire reduced the gathering place and the "appeal" to ashes, and all the good wishes of the literati and lofty ideals disappeared.

Günter Grass was a German writer and a plastic artist. This book is divided into two parts: "Literature Glass" and "Art Glass". "Literary Grass" includes his novels, plays, poems, essays, lectures, autobiographies and other works in various genres, trying to give readers an overview of Grass's literary creative style, including excerpts from novels such as "The Tin Drum", the drama "The Flood", the essay "My Teacher Döblin", the autobiography "Peeling the Onion", "Box Camera", etc. The "Art Grass" section includes the author's sketches, watercolors, sculptures and other fine art works. This book comprehensively displays Glass's achievements in the field of literature and art.