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 Of The Modern World.
about The Author:
günter Grass Was Born In 1927 In Danzig. Active As An Artist, Poet, And Playwright, He Has Lived In Paris And Traveled Widely In Europe. At Present He Lives In Berlin With His Wife And Twin Sons.
the Tin Drum, The Author's First Novel, Has Been Translated Into All Major European Languages. A Film Version Of The Book Received An Oscar For Best Foreign Film In 1980. His Other Works Include cat And Mouse, the Flounder, headbirths, And the Rat.
In 1999, Günter Grass Was Awarded The Nobel Prize For Literature.
the Washington Post - Michael Dirda
with A Magic-realist Brio, the Tin Drum Mixes Fantasy, Gallows Humor, Several Pathetic Love Stories, A Tragic Family Saga, A Classic Bildungsroman And A Powerful Account Of How Great Political Events Affectusually Disastrouslya Small Group Of Ordinary People. It Grabs Your Attention From The Very First Words…the Tin Drum…remains A Very Great Novel, As Daring And Imaginative As Gabriel Garcia Marquez's one Hundred Years Of Solitude Or Toni Morrison's beloved.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- General
- Historical Fiction
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author : Gunter Grass
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2009-10-08
Number Of Pages : 582
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0151014167
ISBN-13 : 9780151014163
Item weight : 1.85 lb
Dimensions : 1.8 in x 6.1 in x 9.1 in
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