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The Tin Drum
  • Published: 22 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9781448180103
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 576

The Tin Drum

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Paperback
7 Jan 2025
EBook
3 Aug 2017
EBook
22 June 2017
Paperback
1 Dec 2010
Hardback
25 June 1993
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On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. While beating his tin drum he recounts his extraordinary life in this classic and essential German novel.

The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Günter Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925 to 1955 through the eyes of Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his retarded childhood fantastically counterpoints the accumulating horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.
  • Published: 22 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9781448180103
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 576
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About the author

Günter Grass

Günter Grass (1927–2015) was Germany’s most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass’s first novel, The Tin Drum, is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
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