The matriarch in this novel dates three men named "Johann" while working in a carpentry factory.  This novel ends with the line, "It doesn't end.  Never will it end".  The protagonist gets divorced from Gabby before the work begins, and investigates the history of a certain "Yugoslav William Tell" who killed a Nazi official
The matriarch in this novel dates three men named "Johann" while working in a carpentry factory.  This novel ends with the line, "It doesn't end.  Never will it end".  The protagonist gets divorced from Gabby before the work begins, and investigates the history of a certain "Yugoslav William Tell" who killed a Nazi official in Switzerland.  The narrator repeatedly finds a website at the center of this work by searching for the keywords "a Jew fired the shots".  In this novel, Conrad, the protagonist's son, debates David about the sinking of the cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff, on which the protagonist was born in a life boat in 1945.  That protagonist's mother, Tulla Pokriefke, also appeared in the final two books of the author's Danzig trilogy.  FTP, name this Gunter Grass novel published in 2002, whose title comes from the way the protagonist moves through time.
The matriarch in this novel dates three men named "Johann" while working in a carpentry factory.  
Crabwalk [or Im Krebsgang]