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The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum

Summary

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.

Reviews

  • Given Grass's close involvement with this new translation, it is fair to call this the definitive version of arguably the most important German novel of the post-war era.
    Observer

About the author

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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