The publication ofThe Tin Drumin 1959 launched Günter 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.
| ISBN: | 9780099466048 |
| Publication date: | 5th February 2004 |
| Author: | Günter Grass |
| Publisher: | Vintage Classic an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 567 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Second World War fiction |