Product Description

The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Gunter Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925 to 1955 through the eyes of Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his retarded childhood fantastically counterpoints the accumulating horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110464 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 576 pages

From the Publisher
ONE OF TWELVE TITLES IN VINTAGE'S A FORMAT WAR PROMOTION. Funny, macabre, disgusting, blasphemous, pathetic, horrifying, erotic, it is an endless delirium, an outrageous phantasmagoria in which dust from Goethe, Hans Andersen, Swift, Rabelais, Joyce, Aristophanes and Rochester dances on the point of a needle in the flame of a candle that was not worth the game' Daily Telegraph

About the Author
Gunter Grass:
G-nther Grass, born in Danzig in 1927, is Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer. He is a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. G-nther Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.