The Tin Drum
Grass's landmark novel in a stunning new translation and with a new foreword by the author WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures is post-war Germany.
G nter 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.
Author: Gunter Grass
Format: Paperback, 608 pages, 130mm x 198mm, 445 g
Published: 2010, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Grass's landmark novel in a stunning new translation and with a new foreword by the author WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures is post-war Germany.
G nter 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.