The Tin Drum

Grass, Gunter

Oskar, the dwarf drummer boy, whose voice shatters glass, lives through the birth and death of Nazi Germany, beating his toy drum through the creeping Nazification of average families, the attrition of the war years, the coming of the Russians, and the complacent atmosphere of West Germany's postwar 'economic miracle'; translated by Ralph Manheim; the author's first book; a movie version followed in 1979.

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