Grass, Gunter
The tin drum/ by Gunter Grass; Traslated by Breon Mitchell - London: Vintage Books, 2010. - 582 p. ;
Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Willfully stunting his growth at three feet for many years, wielding his tin drum and piercing scream as anarchistic weapons, he provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world.
9780099540656
Autobiographical fiction, German
833.914 / GRA
The tin drum/ by Gunter Grass; Traslated by Breon Mitchell - London: Vintage Books, 2010. - 582 p. ;
Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Willfully stunting his growth at three feet for many years, wielding his tin drum and piercing scream as anarchistic weapons, he provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world.
9780099540656
Autobiographical fiction, German
833.914 / GRA