Dog Years Novel by Günter Grasspremium off white cream pages Stitched binding Matte cover local premium copy Language English Dimensions 5. 5 x 8. 26 inches Pages amount 597 Summary Gnter Grass's third novel, "Dog Years," is a huge, rambling, rich, dense story in which scarecrows, dogs and fantastic characters are sent wandering through the landscape and towns of German (particularly the country at the mouth of the Vistula) during the period from 1920 to the 1950's.