The Tin Drum

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Author: Gunter Grass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Gunter Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter an d 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. Show more