The Tin Drum
- ISBN-10
- 0039444902
- ISBN-13
- 9780039444907
- Series
- The Tin Drum
- Pages
- 591
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1963
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Author
- Günter Grass
Description
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.
