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The Tin Drum
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The Tin Drum Hardcover - 1999

by Gunter Grass

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  • Title The Tin Drum
  • Author Gunter Grass
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Condition Used Good
  • Pages 592
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pantheon, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date October 1999
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 158213
  • ISBN 9780375420573 / 0375420576
  • Weight 1.69 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.57 x 5.99 x 1.78 in (21.77 x 15.21 x 4.52 cm)
  • Reading level 1220
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Political fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 62014256
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

The author of many acclaimed novels, plays, poetry collections, and nonfiction, Günter Grass was born in Gdansk, Poland (formerly Danzig, Germany), in 1927.  He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.

First line

GRANTED : I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.

Media reviews

"When Günter Grass published The Tin Drum in 1959, it was as if German literature had been granted a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction.  Within the pages of this, his first novel, Grass re-created the lost world from which his creativity sprang: Danzig, his home town, as he remembered it from the years of his infancy before the catastrophe of war.  Here he comes to grips with the enormous task of reviewing contemporary history by recalling the disavowed and the forgotten: the victims, losers, and lies that people wanted to forget because they had once believed in them.  The unforgettable Oskar Matzerath is an intellectual whose critical approach is childishness, a one-man carnival, dadaism in action in everyday German provincial life just when this small world becomes involved in the sanity of the great world surrounding it.  It is not too audacious to assume that The Tin Drum will become one of the enduring literary works of the twentieth century."
-- The Swedish Academy, awarding Günter Grass the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1999

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