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The tin drum/ by Gunter Grass; Traslated by Breon Mitchell

By: Grass, Gunter.
Contributor(s): Mitchell, Breon (Tr.).
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London: Vintage Books, 2010Description: 582 p.ISBN: 9780099540656.Subject(s): Autobiographical fiction, GermanDDC classification: 833.914 Summary: 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.
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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.

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