Book :: The Tin Drum
| By: | Günter Grass |
| Pages: | 567 |
| Published: | 1959 |
| Genre(s): | Germany |
| Magical Realism | |
| War | |
| Award(s): | Nobel Prize in Literature (1999) |
| Rating: | (5) |
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The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth century, was published in Ralph Manheim's outstanding translation in 1959. It became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its young author to the forefront of world literature. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, along with Grass’s publishers all over the world, is bringing out a new...
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red13x
Some parts were more enjoyable than others, but overall a pretty bland book for me.
Oct 4th, 2024
jalfarjazz
Oscar Matzerat is a kid who decides not to grow and be always three years old, but after a hard confrontation with a complex world in the middle of the war, his vision of life changes. I read this book twenty years ago and I don’t remember many details, but I still remember some powerful scenes about the absurd of human behavior, the best and the worst of human condition and vision of Germany from inside during the World War II.
Mar 12th, 2013
The Tin Drum appears on these lists...
39th on The Novel 100 by Daniel S. Bert
70th on 100 Greatest Novels of All Time by The Guardian
