I'm reading 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'. Wow! I loved 'The Tin Drum'. I was very disappointed when Grass revealed that he was a nazi sympathizer and in the German army in his recent book, 'Crabwalk'. I still love books by authors whose politics and actions I may abhor such as Knut Hamsun, T.S. Eliot and the like. It is so difficult for me to reconcile horrible deeds by people who create such beauty.