Bitter and impassioned, The Tin Drum delivers a scathing dissection of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures in post-war Germany.
'Grass is one of the master fabulists of our age' The Times
TRANSLATED BY BREON MITCHELL
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.
Günter Grass (19272015) was Germanys most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grasss first novel, The Tin Drum, is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
