The Tin Drum

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOROn 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.

Product details

• Authors: Gunter Grass, Günter Grass
• Assisted by: Breon Michell (Translation), Breon Mitchell (Translation), Mitchell Breon (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.10.2010
• EAN: 9780099540656
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954065-6
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Düsseldorf, Historical fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Satire, Fiction in translation, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Magical Realism, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Satirical fiction and parodies, Classic fiction: general and literary, Gdansk, Gdynia, Sopot – Tri-city