TY - BOOK AU - Grass, Gunter AU - Mitchell, Breon (Tr.) TI - The tin drum (Audio CDs') SN - 9781433297038 U1 - 833.914 23 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Blackstone Audio, INC. KW - Autobiographical fiction, German N1 - Gunter Grass, Winner of the Nobel prize for literature. The new translation by Breon Mitchell; Read by Paul Michael Gracia N2 - 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. ER -