The Tin Drum
  • Published: 25 June 1993
  • ISBN: 9781857151473
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 550
  • RRP: $45.00

The Tin Drum

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Paperback
7 Jan 2025
Paperback
1 Dec 2010
EBook
3 Aug 2017
EBook
22 Jun 2017
Hardback
25 Jun 1993
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This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

THE TIN DRUM presents Hitler's rise and fall through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator whose magic powers become symbolic of the dark forces dominating the German nation in the period. Like Thomas Mann's DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Grass's novel explores the dark roots of power and creativity. An early advocate of 'magic realism'. Gunter Grass is the most powerful and celebrated novelist to appear in post-war Germany. His home city of Danzig is a powerful presence in this novel.
  • Published: 25 June 1993
  • ISBN: 9781857151473
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 550
  • RRP: $45.00
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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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